article_snippet: BBC BBC insists no such pressure was applied to delay the Savile report.
article_snippet: The businesswoman, 53, has already come under fire from MPs over -fire
article_snippet: Tory MP Andrew Bridgen, who has written to BBC BBC about the sexual abuse review, said:
article_snippet: ‘The delay and the non-publication of the correspondence is not good for the licence fee-payer
article_snippet: but it is probably good for the BBC in the run-up to it Charter review.
article_snippet: Mrs Fairhead’s decision came at the end of a five-month battle by a transparency campaigner who used Freedom of Information Act requests to try to find out if BBC bosses had put pressure on Dame Janet to delay Dame Janet report.
article_snippet: In my view, the public interest in demonstrating that the sexual abuse review is acting independently of BBC and that BBC BBC is not putting unwarranted pressure on the sexual abuse review to delay delivery of her report has largely been served by the information already made available to the requestor.
article_snippet: ’ BBC BBC has refused to answer questions about the sexual abuse review ongoing costs.
article_snippet: The most recent statement on the review website states the review website is ‘not expected to be finalised until early 2015’.
article_snippet: A BBC spokesman said: ‘We can confirm the correspondence shows no BBC member of staff has exerted any pressure on members of the review team to delay publication of her report.
highlights_snippet: The probe has so far taken more than two years and cost at least £5million .
  