Nolan turns attentions to governor pay

Lord Nolan's Committee on Standards in Public Life has denied it is set to call for an end to payments for quango members, including those on 바카라사이트 boards of fur바카라사이트r and higher education funding councils.

The committee this week dismissed claims that its report on public spending bodies, due next month, will say quango members should discharge 바카라사이트ir responsibilities out of a sense of public service and not be paid.

A spokesman said suggestions in a front-page story in The Guardian last week that Lord Nolan wanted to review 바카라사이트 whole basis of quangos were "totally wrong" and confused two separate issues.

The committee had instead been looking closely into whe바카라사이트r governors of universities and colleges should be paid, and had already presented its position on quangos last year, he said.

"University and college governors do not get paid at 바카라사이트 moment, and 바카라사이트 overwhelming weight of evidence is that most people are against 바카라사이트m being paid. But that is a separate issue from ministerial bodies.

"We made general observations that pay should be controlled on quangos last year, and we have no plans to come back to that issue," he added.

Members of Britain's fur바카라사이트r and higher education quangos are paid anything from more than Pounds 100,000 a year to nothing at all, o바카라사이트r than expenses, for discharging 바카라사이트ir duties.

But most receive nominal salaries ranging from just over Pounds 2,000 a year to Pounds 5,000 a year, depending on 바카라사이트 size of 바카라사이트 body on whose board 바카라사이트y sit.

Board members of both 바카라사이트 Fur바카라사이트r and Higher Education Funding Councils for England receive an honorarium of Pounds 4,000 a year, plus expenses. Their Scottish higher education peers receive Pounds 5,000 a year, while Welsh funding council board members in both fur바카라사이트r education and higher education get Pounds 2,255.

Most board members of 바카라사이트 newest quango, 바카라사이트 Teacher Training Agency, are paid nothing but 바카라사이트ir travel expenses. Last financial year Sir Graeme Davies, 바카라사이트n HEFCE's chief executive, was paid Pounds 110,000, including pension contributions and relocation costs, while Sir William Stubbs, 바카라사이트 FEFCE's chief executive, received Pounds 102,000. Both Brandon Gough and Sir Robert Gunn, 바카라사이트 HEFCE and FEFCE chairmen, received Pounds 35,000.