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Taxpayer foots the bill for nuclear bonuses – Times Online

Taxpayer foots the bill for nuclear bonuses TIMESONLINE Robin Pagnamenta, 22 April 09

Public servants working in Britain’s nuclear industry are being paid millions of pounds of taxpayer-funded bonuses every year, The Times has learnt.

The finding, which emerged from the response to an inquiry under the Freedom of Information Act, has prompted fresh accusations of government waste as the Chancellor prepares the most austere Budget in decades today.

The response from the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA), the agency responsible for the clean-up of Britain’s nuclear sites, shows that the organisation paid nearly £3.8 million in bonuses to its 315 staff last year.

The average bonus was £11,954, with some regular, non-director level staff receiving £36,917 – up to 40 per cent of their salary. NDA directors received bonuses as high as  £85,000.
The figures also show that every one of the NDA’s regular workforce received a bonus last year, as they did in 2007. The payments were made on top of the regular salary payments, which totalled £19.5 million in 2008.

Taxpayer foots the bill for nuclear bonuses – Times Online

April 22, 2009 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | business and costs, UK | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, radioactive