Govt reveals public sector rich list
British Prime Minister David Cameron’s salary is lower than of 172 senior bureaucrats working in Whitehall. The coalition government in the UK published the salaries of the highest-earning senior civil servants on the Cabinet office website as promised by Mr Cameron.
The Prime Minister’s annual salary is £150,000, however, Mr Cameron in the first Cabinet took a five per cent pay cut for himself, lowering it to £142,500.
The Cabinet Office published names, job titles and salary level of senior civil servants with salaries more than £150,000, the first time the information was made public officially.
Britain’s top earning bureaucrat is John Fingleton, office of fair trading chief executive, whose annual salary with allowances comes to £279,999. NHS chief executive David Nicholson gets £259,999 and Joe Harley, the department for work and pensions IT director general and chief information officer gets £249,999.
The Chief of the Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshal Sir Jock Stirrup, earns £244,999 annually and the head of the civil service, Cabinet secretary Sir Gus O’Donnell, has £239,999 annual salary.
Under Mr Cameron’s transparency drive, the coalition government will release details about government contracts over £10,000 on a single website from September and details about items of central government spending over £25,000 from November.
Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude will chair the new Public Sector Transparency Board, which will drive the cross-government transparency agenda. It will be responsible for setting open data standards across the public sector and developing the legal Right to Data.
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