Quango’s rule KO!!! Just gimmie the money honey
Scottish taxpayers are picking up a £22million annual bill for the salaries of chief executives and committee members of almost 100 public bodies, (quangos) including some people don‘t even know exist:
And this does not include Scotland’s 32 local authorities, 14 health boards, police, fire and ambulance services,
The Water Quango’s
Four quangos manage elements of Scotland’s water systems.
Former Scottish Water CEO Douglas Millican who departed in May 2023, received £520,000. This comprised a salary of £270,000, a long-term incentive payment of £160,000 and a bonus of £80,000.
Disasters under his watch include sewage spills directly into Scotland’s rivers, lochs and seas and a heavy fine imposed on it in May 2023 for releasing chemicals into a Fife river that killed hundreds of salmon and trout in October 2018.
His successor, Alex Plant, was awarded an even higher annual salary of £295,000.
Alex Sutherland, CEO of the Water Industry Commission for Scotland (WICS), on an annual salary and incentives exceeding £400.000 was sacked at the beginning of December 2023 following revelations of financial irregularities.
See the 2022/23 audit of the Water Industry Commission for Scotland.
The annual salary and incentives of the CEOs of the other two quangos including, the Scottish Canals, Drinking Water Quality Regulator for Scotland is around £400,000.
Summarised from a report written by Hannah Rodger, Sunday Mail, Chief Reporter
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