BBC royal correspondent failed to declare extra pay

Jonny Dymond apologises after he topped up £200,000 salary with outside earnings from corporate events

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The BBC’s royal correspondent has apologised for failing to declare outside earnings from corporate events.
Jonny Dymond topped up his £200,000 salary in March by hosting the UK Sponsorship Awards, for which he was paid a four-figure sum.
In the same month, he also hosted an “in conversation” event with financial journalist Martin Wolf for the media company Intelligence Squared.
Under BBC rules, staff are required to disclose all paid appearances on a BBC register which is made public every quarter.
However, Mr Dymond failed to do so.
After the omissions were brought to the BBC’s attention by blogger Dr Alex May, a spokesman said: “We have spoken to Jonny to remind him of his responsibilities with regards to the external events register, and he has apologised for these errors.”
Mr Dymond also hosted the 2023 UK Sponsorship Awards and did add the event to the register on that occasion. 
He was paid between £1,000 and £5,000. The exact figure he received has not been publicly disclosed, as such payments are reported in bands on the register.
The former BBC Washington correspondent and Europe correspondent is one of the corporation’s highest-paid journalists. He declined to comment further.
Mr Dymond is not the only BBC name who has failed to correctly log corporate work on the events register.
In September it was reported that Clive Myrie had not declared four corporate hosting events in the first six months of the year, including work for the Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association, Allen & Overy, a law firm, ING, an investment bank, and the Association of Insurance and Risk Managers in Industry and Commerce.
The BBC said there had been “some administrative errors”. 
Contacted by The Sunday Times, Mr Myrie, who is paid £310,000 for his BBC News work and a further undisclosed sum for presenting Mastermind, did not respond to a request for comment.
The events register was introduced in 2021 following criticism of stars including Fiona Bruce and Naga Munchetty, who were accused of “moonlighting” without declaring their extra earnings to the public.
Sir Robbie Gibb, a BBC board member and former Downing Street communications chief, said at the time that the move would “ensure BBC staff are not creating conflicts of interest as they cash in on their profile”.
The lists exposed how seemingly eager some of the BBC’s best-paid stars were to boost their earnings.
Huw Edwards, then the BBC’s highest-earning news presenter, appeared at four events in the space of a month in 2022, making at least £25,000.
Dan Walker, the then presenter of BBC Breakfast, earned up to £20,000 by carrying out two non-BBC engagements in a single day.
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