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Now, BBC pays greater number of staff members over 150, 000 pounds a year

Promise of cut pay remains unfulfilled

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A pedestrian walks past a BBC logo at Broadcasting House in central London. Photo: Reuters

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The number of senior managers at the BBC earning more than 150,000 pounds ($192,555) a year has risen despite a promise by the publicly-funded broadcaster to cut the figure by a fifth, Britain's spending watchdog said on Wednesday.

The National Audit Office said there were 98 members of staff earning such salaries in March 2016 compared to January 2012 when there were just 89, even though the BBC had committed itself to a 20 percent reduction.

It also said the BBC had failed to reduce the number of senior managers to 1 percent of the workforce by 2015, with the figure at