New BBC HQ costs branded 'staggering'

The running costs of the BBC’s prestigious new headquarters at Broadcasting House are almost three-times as high as for other comparable buildings in the UK, the Whitehall spending watchdog has disclosed.

The National Audit Office (NAO) said the building – which became fully operational in 2013 after a major £1bn decade-long redevelopment programme - costs £89m a year to run, accounting for a third of the annual £273m running costs of the BBC’s entire UK estate.