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BBC paid £150k on private eyes
THE BBC spent £150,000 on private investigators in the decade to mid-2011, its director of editorial policy and standards David Jordan said yesterday.
Speaking at the Home Affairs Select Committee’s inquiry into the case for statutory regulation of private investigators – launched in the wake of the phone-hacking scandal – Jordan admitted that the BBC has not made a conscious decision not to hire private eyes.
“We haven’t ruled out the possibility [of using them],” he said.