The new director of BBC Scotland has promised to spend a greater proportion of licence fee funding raised north of the border in Scotland.

The corporation raised around £320m from Scottish licence fee-payers in 2015/16.

About 55% was spent in Scotland, compared to 74% in Northern Ireland and 95% in Wales.

Director Donalda MacKinnon said: "I have made it very clear that it is my ambition to change that number. The percentage of the licence fee collected in Scotland I think has to reflect better the amount spent in Scotland.

"I don't want to commit to a figure exactly at the moment, but certainly an increase on what is the case that moment, which is 55% of the licence fee.

"I think we have a new opportunity to define exactly what kind of BBC in Scotland audiences expect and the kind of resource it rightly should claim, relative to the amount of licence fee collected in Scotland."

The BBC raised £320m in Scotland in 2015/16 and spent £176.5m on local and Scottish-made BBC content.

In 2014/15, it raised £323m through the license fee north of the border and spent £203m (63%) in Scotland.

Ms MacKinnon said she aims to rebuild trust in the corporation following the 2014 independence referendum.

In an interview with the BBC, she said: "We have very successful news output, but there's no doubt that there was a feeling among a significant percentage of the population - not the total population - that trust might need to be rebuilt.

"I think it was proven by research undertaken by the BBC Trust that that we had not breached any impartiality and could not be accused of being biased.

"Did we sometimes get it wrong? Possibly.

"If we get it wrong - and there's no doubt we are all human beings, and we can do - we should put our hands up and say yeah, sorry, we may have got that wrong, but we certainly, as far as I'm concerned, can't be accused of bias."

Ms MacKinnon has also promised to abolish the practice of moving the production of programming traditionally produced elsewhere in the UK to Scotland to meet quotas.

A recent report from Holyrood's culture committee described it as "subverting the spirit of the quota".