Well Done, The BBC! Another winner!

Mark Thompson, erstwhile nouveau-DG of the BBC seems determined to make a name for himself in his first year at the corporation. Not a good one, either. One 100% hands-down guaranteed way to really get the good burghers of Wood Lane in a tizz is to cut even more Factual and Learning jobs. Ah, but - the argument goes - Factual & Learning has far too many people in it, and it's a very expensive department to run....
There's a good reason why it's expensive. It's because facts need checking, and learning materials need to have some kind of genuine and legitimate educational value. Thommo doesn't seem to agree, but then, having recently been brought (bought?) in from Channel 4, one can understand that he fails to grasp that particular nettle (or indeed concept).
Rather, he really should fire all the charming little hobbits who nest within the BBC Creative R&D department (having sneakily changed it's name from 'Imagineering' in a very Windscale/Sellafield kind of a way - what were they trying to cover up? perhaps the monumental amount of money they waste on useless projects every year? Who knows...)
How much money would that save...?