Yentob's expenses: £120 on a cake

The UK's MPs will be relieved that the spotlight on their expenses shifted today - the BBC's creative director, Alan Yentob, is providing fresh material in that department. Despite insistence by a spokesman that the BBC has "very strict guidelines" on expenses, the Daily Mail claims today that on top of Yentob's £300,000 salary he claimed £27,000 in expenses - £120 of which was spent on a cake. The Taxpayers' Alliance said he is one of the "gilded few at the BBC who claim expenses as if they were hedge fund managers".