BBC pays out more than £2m in payoffs weeks before cap deadline Each employee will pocket more than £150,000 a fortnight before Lord Hall, the corporation's director-general, imposes a £150,000 cap. He said: "Given the public furore caused by the recent revelations about management payoffs, one would have thought that the BBC might have made some attempt to redeploy these executives, rather than paying them hundreds of thousands of pounds to do nothing." One of the 11 received a payment of £180,000. It is understood that the BBC found new jobs for a further four executives who would otherwise have received redundancy payments of more than £150,000. Former BBC director-general Mark Thompson, who was responsible for reducing the corporation's manager headcount, is expected to be questioned next month by a Commons committee over the large payoffs. The Metropolitan police said on Friday that it would not conduct a criminal investigation into whether the BBC broke the law by giving senior managers excessive payoffs. The National Audit Office (NAO) had revealed that the corporation paid £60m in severance to senior managers over eight years. In a quarter of the cases it examined, the NAO said the managers received more than they were entitled to under their contracts.