The BBC Trust has accepted National Audit Office (NAO)’s recommendations in its independent report, The BBC’s Preparedness for Digital Switchover, calling for improvement of the evaluation of its £200m funding to Digital UK, and has undertaken to monitor progress.
The trust, which commissioned the report from NAO in relation to the switchover from its existing analogue to digital network by 2012, also has agreed the BBC will further strengthen its oversight of switchover work by adding an independent representative on the project governance board.
Furthermore, BBC will also establish performance indicators for the help scheme and the trust will ensure that, where possible, BBC follows lessons learned from the switchover in the Copeland region, scheduled for completion this month.
Jeremy Peat, BBC trustee, said the trust would continue to scrutinise BBC's preparations for the digital switchover and would commission a review of the digital switchover help scheme around 2009 to monitor the operational value for money of the scheme.
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