Jeremy Hunt, the culture secretary, has also hinted the corporation pays executives too much and wants to force it to open its accounts to external auditors.

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It has also vowed to maintain the 4.5% dividend it pays to investors.

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So the trend has been going upward, and the amount of co-pays have also been going upward.

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But it has also tied the country ever more closely to the United States' market, almost the only one that pays.

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