The BBC has cut its median gender pay gap from 9.3 per cent to 7.6 per cent in the past year.

The corporation’s mean pay gap has also fallen, from 10.7 per cent in 2017 to 8.4 per cent.

The drop has come after “concerted action” at the BBC to close its gender pay gap by 2020, and maintain a gap of 3 per cent either way thereafter, following publication of the salaries of its top-earning on-air talent last year.