The BBC is to publish the salaries and expenses of its top 100 executives and decision-makers, its director general Mark Thompson will announce later.
Salaries and detailed expenses will be published alongside named executives later this year. The total spend for on-air talent will also be revealed.
In addition, the expenses of some top executives will be released on Thursday after a Freedom of Information request.
Salaries and detailed expenses will be published alongside named executives later this year. The total spend for on-air talent will also be revealed.
In addition, the expenses of some top executives will be released on Thursday after a Freedom of Information request.
Excellent. Contrary to popular belief, the BBC is not just funded by the licence payer but also by the taxpayer via the Home Office for such gems as BBC Persia or “documentaries” about whatever INGSOC feels we should be seeing.
I sense that FOI requests are going to be used against all the ravenous but unaccountable users of our money, who hide behind fake charities, quangos and special interest groups so beloved by New Labour.
I’m sending one to the Potato Council today. Send one to a quango yourself, there are so many to choose from and they only cost us a mere £167.5 BILLION a year up from £24 billion in 1998
In 1998, the chief executive of the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority, the quango that oversees the National Curriculum, was paid £43,563.
Today the post is occupied by Ken Boston, who last year received £273,000: almost six times the pay of his predecessor. The QCA said that Mr Boston’s package consisted of a salary of £195,000, pension contributions and – because he was brought in from Australia to do the job five years ago – the cost of his accommodation, which is met by the taxpayer as a “benefit in kind”.
A spokesman for the QCA admitted that the role of the quango had not essentially changed over the past decade, but that ministers must have decided after the crisis in A-level marking in 2002 that it was essential to trawl the world for a candidate “of the highest calibre”.
Today the post is occupied by Ken Boston, who last year received £273,000: almost six times the pay of his predecessor. The QCA said that Mr Boston’s package consisted of a salary of £195,000, pension contributions and – because he was brought in from Australia to do the job five years ago – the cost of his accommodation, which is met by the taxpayer as a “benefit in kind”.
A spokesman for the QCA admitted that the role of the quango had not essentially changed over the past decade, but that ministers must have decided after the crisis in A-level marking in 2002 that it was essential to trawl the world for a candidate “of the highest calibre”.
Full list of Quangos HERE