BBC Group Annual Report and Accounts 2020/21

BBC

Group Annual Report

and Accounts 2020/21

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Group Annual Report

and Accounts 2020/21

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In this report

About the BBC

2

The BBC in 2020/21

3

The BBC during Covid-19

4

Inform, Educate, Entertain

Strategic report

10 Statement from the Chairman

12 Director-General¡¯s review

16 Delivering our strategy in 2020/21

¨C Renewing our commitment to

impartiality

¨C Focusing on unique, high-impact

content

¨C Extracting more from online

¨C Building our commercial income

¨C Modernising the BBC

¨C The BBC across the UK ¨C our

six-year plan

19 Delivering our public purposes

¨C Impartial news and information

¨C Learning for people of all ages

¨C Creative, distinctive, quality output

¨C Reflecting the UK¡¯s diverse

communities

¨C Reflecting the UK to the world

40 Audience performance and

market context

42 Engaging with audiences

43 Operational report

¨C COO review

¨C PSB expenditure

¨C Our people

¨C BBC Pay Gap report

¨C Consultations

¨C Environmental sustainability

¨C Charitable work

¨C Partnerships and collaboration

65 Commercial operations

¨C BBC Studios

¨C BBC Global News

¨C BBC Studioworks

Governance

73 BBC Board

74 Corporate Compliance report

74 Next Generation Committee report

75 Executive Committee

76 Remuneration report

86 Pay disclosures

93 NAO opinion on pay disclosures

94 Nominations Committee report

95 Audit and Risk Committee report

100 Risks and Opportunities

115 Viability Statement

116 Commercial Holdings Board report

117 Editorial Guidelines and Standards

Committee report

119 Nations Committee reports

121 Fair trading report

123 Independent Fair Trading

Assurance report

124 Statement of Board responsibilities

125 Performance against public

commitments

153 Performance data packs

187 NAO opinion on nations¡¯ data packs

Financial statements

189 Certificate and Report of the

Comptroller and Auditor General

201 Consolidated income statement

202 Consolidated statement of

comprehensive income

203 Consolidated balance sheet

204 Consolidated statement of changes

in equity

205 Consolidated cash flow statement

206 Key themes for the BBC

207 Notes to the accounts

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Strategic report

Additional information

260 Equality Information Report

307 Index

308 Image credits

309 Contact information and feedback

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Governance

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Financial statements

About the BBC

1

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