DUP MP Gregory Campbell has said the recent payments scandal engulfing RTÉ "should be a lesson" for the BBC in relation to presenters' salaries.
The East Derry MP said he has written to BBC NI director Adam Smyth to ask if there were "any similar arrangements" with the UK broadcaster in the north, and called for "absolute transparency" on how license fee payers' money is used.
"I campaigned for decades for salaries of BBC figures to be published in the same way as MPs’ salaries are published," Mr Campbell said.
"Belatedly the BBC published salary bands and with such transparency it became clear that female employees within the BBC were not paid on a par with their male counterparts.”
He added: “All BBC commissioning contracts should be published after they have ended.”
Mr Campbell said that cases relating to joint BBC – RTÉ productions “should have a special review”.
