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Former BBC boss Mark Thompson faces Commons grilling over £100m digital disaster

By Press Association

Former BBC director-general Mark Thompson faces questions from a powerful committee of MPs today about the multi-million pound failure of the corporation's Digital Media Initiative (DMI).

He is one of a handful of current and former BBC employees giving evidence to the Public Affairs Committee about the scheme which was intended to create an integrated digital production and archiving system and ended up being abandoned having cost £100 million of licence fee cash.

Also giving evidence is John Linwood, the corporation's former chief technology officer, who was sacked last year after an internal BBC review into DMI.

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