Pada deputy was paid £85k for a day a week
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National employment savings trust chief executive Tim Jones and former Personal Accounts Delivery Authority acting chair Jeannie Drake both feature on a rich list of civil servants and senior quango staff earning more than £150,000 a year.
The Cabinet Office says it is the first time this information has been published in one place, with some staff salaries never before revealed to the public. Jones earns more than £235,000 while Drake, who will no longer act as deputy chair of Nest as she is set to be awarded a Labour peerage, earned more than £85,000 for a time commitment of one day a week.
Pension Protection Fund chairman and soon to be chairman of Nest, Lawrence Churchill, who earns £85,000 for two days a week, made the rich list, as did PPF chief executive Alan Rubenstein who earns £200,000 per annum.
The Pension Regulator chairman David Norgrove gets a £110,000 salary for three days a week and former TPR chief executive Tony Hobman was paid £175,000 for his full-time role.
The list reveals that seven civil servants in the Department for Work and Pensions earn more than £150,000 a year. A total of 332 senior civil servants in central Government departments and senior staff in non-departmental public bodies earn more than £150,000.
Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude says: “We are committed to acting quickly on pledges to release information that will allow everyone to hold their politicians and public bodies to account. This will increase accountability and lead to more efficient public service organisations.”
Richard Jacobs Pension & Trustee Services managing director Richard Jacobs says: “I accept that to get the right people you have to pay the right money but these people are so privileged and what are they contributing? It is the taxpayer who is coughing up for these excessively paid civil servants. The money that could be saved is staggering.”
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