Boris aide highest paid in local govt, at £450k
For all the huffing and puffing communities minister Eric Pickles does at councils over paying outrageous salaries at the top, he says little about his own backyard.
Who is the highest paid person in local government? It’s Boris Johnson’s recently appointed aide to Transport for London – Peter Hendy, on around £450,000 a year.
Andrew Gilligan at the Telegraph today (who has actually done some research for once), says:
As for Mr Pickles’s despised “£230,000 chief executives”, there are several in that income bracket in Tory council-land, too: the chief executive of Conservative Essex, Joanna Killian, on £237,000, plus pension contributions of £47,000; Kent’s Peter Gilroy, with a salary and bonus of £225,000, plus a pension of £56,000; Suffolk’s Andrea Hill (£218,000, plus £49,000 pension), and many others.
Mrs Hill has now been suspended amid questions about her fondness for luxury hotels at council taxpayers’ expense. But perhaps the most egregious sleepover of all was by Mike Whitby, the Conservative leader of Birmingham City Council, who took a £750-a-night suite at the Hyatt hotel during the 2008 Conservative Party conference, which was in Birmingham that year. The Hyatt is three miles from Cllr Whitby’s home.
Yet when was the last time you saw Eric Pickles attack Tories for such profligate excesses?
I’ve said before that Ken Livingstone should focus on how much money Boris keeps wasting. Boris is also wasting £50,000 on Olyympics bunting – this should add more fuel to that fire.
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Sunny, Peter Hendy was Ken Livingstone’s appointment and was being paid £320k under him:
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/iainmartin/4034741/How_much_do_you_think_the_head_of_Transport_for_London_is_paid/
Under Boris he is now on £332k, according to the just-published draft accounts for 2010/11:
http://www.tfl.gov.uk/assets/downloads/corporate/Item06-Board-29-June-2011-Annual-Report.pdf
Do “some research for once”?
Who is the highest paid person in local government? It’s Boris Johnson’s recently appointed aide to Transport for London – Peter Hendy, on around £450,000 a year.
Appointed in 2006 – by Ken Livingstone.
Gilligan is always adrift (lightning does strike twice). There’s this from 28th March 2011:
“The larger question, though, is whether Hendy is actually capable of performing his own job. His entire career until this post has been overwhelmingly in buses and the results of his efforts to improve the Tube so far do not suggest that he knows what levers to pull.
“Despite his Ken partisanship Hendy must, of course, take some credit for Ken’s defeat in 2008. It was he who persuaded Livingstone to scrap the Routemaster, a hugely unpopular act well exploited by Boris in the campaign. Could Peter Hendy now be responsible for the downfall of his second mayor in a row?”
Here’s hoping.
@2 – “Appointed in 2006 – by Ken Livingstone.”
So presumably now Pickles and his deficit-hating Tories are in power, this job will be cut in order to guarantee savings? I think the point is valid: if you are against “profligate excesses” in local government then you should act wherever you find evidence of “waste” – whatever the political allegiance (if any) of the victim.
You miss the point guys. No doubt he was appointed by Ken. But is Boris planning to get rid of him so he can pay lower wages? Have they asked fellow Tory councillors who get paid 200k+ to take a deep wage cut?
Oh dear Sunny, you really have shot yourself in the foot this time.
Peter Hendy can hardly be described as a “Boris aide”. He is the boss of TfL and was appointed by….ahem… Ken Livingstone in 2006.
Since we’re on the subject of OTT public sector salaries, you might want to recall the emoluments Mr Hendy’s predecessor received from Thrifty Ken:
Mr Kiley, one of the world’s highest paid public servants with a salary and bonus package worth more than ?600,000, is stepping down three years before the end of his term.
He will stay on as the mayor’s principal transport advisor for the next two and a half years, earning £3,200 a day. In 2006 and 2007 he will work 90 days, plus 50 days in 2008, totaling more than £700,000.
Over this period Mr Kiley will live rent-free in the £2.1 million Belgravia home bought for him by the mayor.
http://www.thisislocallondon.co.uk/news/topstories/674046.new_london_transport_boss_appointed/
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