 In October 2012, Pollard was appointed to lead an inquiry into the BBC following allegations of sexual abuse by the late broadcaster and disc jockey Jimmy Savile.Pollard's remit was to look at why an investigation into Savile's activities by journalists on the BBC Two news programme "Newsnight" was dropped shortly before it was due to be transmitted.His report was published in December 2012 and concluded that the decision to drop the original "Newsnight" report in December 2011 was "flawed", but that it had not been done to protect programmes prepared as tributes to Savile.