192 quangos (quasi-autonomous non-governmental organisations)
were to be abolished with a further 118 merged. But despite some
welcome consolidation, hundreds remain and play a major part in
the governance of the UK.
Categorisation of public bodies is problematic when they
have such a wide range of duties, so this note also looks
at the Bank of England and a number of public
corporations which can reasonably be labelled as quangos.
This research looks at how much these top
“quangocrats” have been paid.
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The key findings of his
research are:
- There were at least 4,337 quango employees
- who received total remuneration in excess of
- £100,000.
- There were 973 quango employees who received
- remuneration in excess of £150,000.
- 106 quango employees received remuneration in
- excess of £250,000.
- 763 Transport for London employees received
- remuneration in excess of £100,000.
- There were 9 quangos with at least 100 employees
- who received remuneration in excess of £100,000.
- The three highest paid quango employees were all
- employed by Network Rail and received £300,000
- “one-off retention payments.” They were:
- Patrick Butcher, Group Finance Director
- - £767,000
- Robin Gisby, Managing Director, Network
- Operations - £742,000
- Simon Kirby, Managing Director –
- Infrastructure Projects Group - £741,000
- Of the 100 highest paid quango employees,
- 21 were employed by the BBC, 21 by TfL, 16
- by the Bank of England, 5 by Network Rail and
- 5 by the Green Investment Bank. TPA.
