Antinuclear

included paying £3.8 million in taxpayer-funded bonuses to staff during 2008…The payments, which ranged from an average of just under £12,000 to nearly £37,000, were made on top of regular salary payments totalling £19.5 million.

Top jobs go in shake-up at nuclear quango,  The Times April 3, 2010, Two of Britain’s most highly paid civil servants have been axed and dozens more jobs are under threat at the quango charged with cleaning up nuclear plants, The Timeshas learnt.

The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority confirmed yesterday that William Roberts, the chief financial officer, and Jim Morse, the director of assurance, have been placed on gardening leave after an “organisational efficiency review”.

They were both earning more than £212,000 a year, including £25,000 in bonuses — higher than the Prime Minister’s £197,689 salary.

The jobs are being cut as part of a sweeping cost-cutting drive at the authority and after a review of pay practices — which The Times revealed last year included paying £3.8 million in taxpayer-funded bonuses to staff during 2008. The authority spends £2.8 billion per year overseeing the clean-up of 19 contaminated UK nuclear sites, including Sellafield, in Cumbria, and Dounreay, in Caithness……

This arm’s-length relationship precludes it from the Civil Service Code, which imposes pay and other restrictions on regular government departments.

This allowed the NDA to pay out nearly £3.8 million in bonuses last year to staff.

The payments, which ranged from an average of just under £12,000 to nearly £37,000, were made on top of regular salary payments totalling £19.5 million.

Top jobs go in shake-up at nuclear quango – Times Online