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Senior officials 'high earners' salaries 2010
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| Name | Job Title | Grade | Organisation | Annual pay rate - including taxable benefits and allowances | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stephan Wilcke | Chief Executive Officer | Not set | Asset Protection Agency | £150,000 - £154,999 | Not set |
| Jens Bech | Chief Risk Officer | Not set | Asset Protection Agency | £165,000 - £169,999 | No pension |
| Ion Dagtoglou | Chief Invesment Officer | Not set | Asset Protection Agency | £165,000 - £169,999 | No pension |
| Brian Scammell | Chief Credit Officer | Not set | Asset Protection Agency | £130,000 - £134,999 | 4 days per week |
| Hamish Buckland | Special Advisor | Not set | Asset Protection Agency | £65,000 - £69,999 | 2 days per week |
| Stephen Lovegrove | Chief Executive, Shareholder Executive | Director General | BIS | £185,000 - £189,999 | Not set |
| Philip Rutnam | Director General, Business Group | Director General | BIS | £180,000 - £184,999 | Not set |
| Vicky Pryce | Director General, Economics and Joint Head, UK Government Economic Service | Director General | BIS | £175,000 - £179,999 | Not set |
| Prof. John Beddington | Government Chief Scientific Adviser | Permanent Secretary | BIS | £165,000 - £169,999 | Not set |
| Prof. Adrian Smith | Director General, Science and Research | Director General | BIS | £160,000 - £164,999 | Not set |
| Philip Rycroft | Director General, Innovation and Enterpriseand Chief Executive of the Better Regulation Executive | Director General | BIS | £160,000 - £164,999 | Not set |
| Howard Orme | Director General, Finance and Commercial | Director General | BIS | £160,000 - £164,999 | Not set |
| Simon Fraser | BIS Permanent Secretary | Permanent Secretary | BIS | £160,000 - £164,999 | Not set |
| Mark Russell | Deputy Chief Executive, Shareholder Executive | Director | BIS | £155,000 - £159,999 | Not set |
| John McCready | Managing Director, Property, Shareholder Executive | Director | BIS | £150,000 - £154,999 | Not set |
| Marc Middleton | Managing Director, Royal Mail & Postal Services, Shareholder Executive | Director | BIS | £150,000 - £154,999 | Not set |
| Alison Littley | Chief Executive | Director General | Buying Solutions | £150,000 - £154,999 | Not set |
| Gus O'Donnell | Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Home Civil Service | Permanent Secretary | Cabinet Office | £235,000 - £239,999 | Not set |
| Stephen Laws | First Parliamentary Counsel | Permanent Secretary | Cabinet Office | £225,000 - £229,999 | Not set |
| Robert Parker | Parliamentary Counsel | Parliamentary Counsel | Cabinet Office | £210,000 - £214,999 | Not set |
| John Suffolk | Chief Information Officer for HM Government and chair of the CIO Council | Director General | Cabinet Office | £205,000 - £209,999 | Not set |
| Philip Davies | Parliamentary Counsel | Parliamentary Counsel | Cabinet Office | £195,000 - £199,999 | Not set |
| Catherine Johnston | Parliamentary Counsel | Parliamentary Counsel | Cabinet Office | £190,000 - £194,999 | Not set |
| Gill Rider | Head of Civil Service Capability Group | Director General | Cabinet Office | £180,000 - £184,999 | No pension |
| David Cook | Parliamentary Counsel | Parliamentary Counsel | Cabinet Office | £175,000 - £179,999 | Not set |
| Elizabeth Gardiner | Parliamentary Counsel | Parliamentary Counsel | Cabinet Office | £170,000 - £174,999 | Not set |
| Adrian Hogarth | Parliamentary Counsel | Parliamentary Counsel | Cabinet Office | £170,000 - £174,999 | Not set |
| Leonie McLaughlin | Parliamentary Counsel | Parliamentary Counsel | Cabinet Office | £170,000 - £174,999 | Not set |
| Matt Tee | Permanent Secretary for Government Communications | Permanent Secretary | Cabinet Office | £160,000 - £164,999 | Not set |
| Alex Allan | Chairman of the Joint Intelligence committee and Professional Head of Intelligence Analysis | Permanent Secretary | Cabinet Office | £160,000 - £164,999 | Not set |
| Edward Stell | Parliamentary Counsel | Parliamentary Counsel | Cabinet Office | £160,000 - £164,999 | Not set |
| Hayley Rogers | Parliamentary Counsel | Parliamentary Counsel | Cabinet Office | £155,000 - £159,999 | Not set |
| Jonathan Cunliffe | Prime Minister's Adviser on International Economic Affairs and Europe | Permanent Secretary | Cabinet Office | £155,000 - £159,999 | Not set |
| David Sprackling | Parliamentary Counsel | Parliamentary Counsel | Cabinet Office | £150,000 - £154,999 | Not set |
| Jeremy Heywood | Permanent Secretary, No.10 | Permanent Secretary | Cabinet Office | £150,000 - £154,999 | Not set |
| Douglas Ramsay | Parliamentary Counsel | Parliamentary Counsel | Cabinet Office | £135,000 - £139,998 | Equal to 0.8 Full Time Salary |
| Janet Paraskeva | First Civil Service Commissioner | Not set | Cabinet Office | £120,000 - £124,999 | Equal to 0.6 Full Time Salary |
| Janet Gaymer | Commissioner for Public Appointments | Not set | Cabinet Office | £90,000 - £94,999 | Equal to 0.6 Full Time Salary |
| Joe Montgomery | Director General, Regions and Communities | Director General | Communities & Local Government | £150,000 - £154,999 | Not set |
| Sir Ken Knight | Chief Fire and Rescue Adviser | Director | Communities & Local Government | £165,000 - £169,999 | Not set |
| Richard McCarthy | Director General, Housing and Planning | Director General | Communities & Local Government | £175,000 - £179,999 | Not set |
| Peter Housden | Permanent Secretary | Permanent Secretary | Communities & Local Government | £185,000 - £189,999 | Not set |
| Peter Lewis | Chief Executive | Director General | Crown Prosecution Service | £160,000 - £164,999 | Not set |
| Keir Starmer | Director of Public Prosecutions | Permanent Secretary | Crown Prosecution Service | £195,000 - £199,999 | Not set |
| David Green | Director of Revenues and Customs Division | Not set | Crown Prosecution Service | £210,000 - £214,999 | Officer was previously the Permanent Secretary for RCPO and currently retains this grade on a personal basis |
| Jonathan Stephens | Permanent Secretary | Permanent Secretary | DCMS | £155,000 - £159,999 | Not set |
| Jeremy Beeton | Director General,Government Olympic Executive | Director General | DCMS | £225,000 - £229,999 | Not set |
| David Goldstone | Director- Finance and Programme, Government Olympic Executive | Director | DCMS | £185,000 - £189,999 | Not set |
| Moira Wallace | Permanent Secretary | Permanent Secretary | DECC | £165,000 - £169,999 | Not set |
| Dame Helen Ghosh | Permanent Secretary | Permanent Secretary | Defra | £140,000 - £144,999 | 4.5 days per week |
| Prof Robert Watson | Chief Scientific Adviser | Director General | Defra | £135,000 - £139,999 | 4 days per week |
| Nemat Shafik | Permanent Secretary | Permanent Secretary | Department for International Development | £190,000 - £194,999 | Not set |
| Robert Devereux | Permanent Secretary | Permanent Secretary | Department for Transport | £160,000 - £164,999 | Not set |
| Dr Mike Mitchell | Head of National Networks Group | Director General | Department for Transport (Centre) | £200,000 - £204,999 | Not set |
| Nirmal Kotecha | Major Projects Director | Director | Department for Transport, Highways Agency | £150,000 - £154,999 | Not set |
| David Nicholson | NHS Chief Executive | Permanent Secretary | Dept. of Health | £255,000 - £259,999 | Includes a gross benefit in kind of £45-50k for a rented flat and associated expenses in London |
| Clare Chapman | Director General of Workforce | Director General | Dept. of Health | £220,000 - £224,999 | Contractual bonus not included |
| Sir Liam Donaldson | Chief Medical Officer | Permanent Secretary | Dept. of Health | £205,000 - £209,999 | Not set |
| Christine Connelly | Chief Information Officer | Director General | Dept. of Health | £200,000 - £204,999 | Not set |
| Gabriel Scally | Regional Director of Public Health | Director | Dept. of Health | £200,000 - £204,999 | Not set |
| David Behan | Director General of Social Care, Local Government and Carepartnerships | Director General | Dept. of Health | £180,000 - £184,999 | Not set |
| David Salisbury | Director of Immunisation | Director | Dept. of Health | £175,000 - £179,999 | Not set |
| Lindsey Davies | Interim Regional Director of Public Health | Director | Dept. of Health | £165,000 - £169,999 | Not set |
| Sir Hugh Taylor | Permanent Secretary, DH | Permanent Secretary | Dept. of Health | £155,000 - £159,999 | Not set |
| Martin Bellamy | ICT Director | Director | Dept. of Health | £160,000 - £164,999 | Not set |
| Duncan Selbie | Chief Executive | Director General | Dept. of Health | £180,000 - £184,999 | On secondment to Royal Sussex County Hospital |
| Sir Leigh Lewis | Permanent Secretary | Permanent Secretary | DWP | £195,000 - £199,999 | Not set |
| Hunada Nouss | Finance Director General | Director General | DWP | £165,000 - £169,999 | Not set |
| Joe Harley | IT Director General & Chief Information Officer | Director General | DWP | £245,000 - £249,999 | Not set |
| Chris Last | HR Director General | Director General | DWP | £180,000 - £184,999 | Not set |
| Mel Groves | Project Director, Welfare & Wellbeing | Director General | DWP | £175,000 - £179,999 | Left DWP 30/4/2010 |
| Stephen Holt | Director of Change Management | Director | DWP | £160,000 - £164,999 | Not set |
| Bill Gunnyeon | Director of Health Work and Wellbeing, Chief Medical Adviser and Chief Scientist | Director | DWP | £155,000 - £159,999 | Not set |
| David Bell | Permanent Secretary | Permanent Secretary | Education | £180,000 - £184,999 | Not set |
| Patrick Crawford | Chief Executive | Director General | Export Credits Guarantee Department | £205,000 - £209,999 | Not set |
| Tim Smith | Chief Executive | Director General | Food Standards Agency | £190,000 - £194,999 | Not set |
| Peter Ricketts | Permanent Under-Secretary and Head of the Diplomatic Service | Permanent Secretary | Foreign & Commonwealth Office | £175,000 - £179,999 | Left on 11 May 2010 |
| Nigel Shienwald | HM Ambassador to the United States of America | Permanent Secretary | Foreign & Commonwealth Office | £175,000 - £179,999 | Not set |
| Kim Darroch | UK Permanent Representative to the European Union | Permanent Secretary | Foreign & Commonwealth Office | £170,000 - £174,999 | Not set |
| Trevor Llanwarne | Government Actuary | Permanent Secretary | Government Actuary's Dept | £190,000 - £194,999 | Not set |
| Marco Pierleoni | Chief Executive and Chief Land Registrar | Director General | HM Land Registry (MoJ Executive Agency) | £170,000 - £174,999 | Marco Pierleoni took up this role and full responsibility for Land Registry Business with effect from 1 February 2010 |
| Peter Collis | Chief Executive and Chief Land Registrar | Director General | HM Land Registry (MoJ Executive Agency) | £150,000 - £154,999 | Peter Collis formally retired on 31 March 2010 |
| Mike Clasper | Chair HM Revenue & Customs | Non-executive | HM Revenue & Customs | £150,000 - £154,999 | 3 days per week |
| Steve Lamey | Director General Benefits & Credits | Director General | HM Revenue & Customs | £205,000 - £209,999 | Not set |
| Simon Bowles | Chief Finance Officer | Director General | HM Revenue & Customs | £185,000 - £189,999 | Not set |
| Phil Pavitt | Chief Information Officer | Director General | HM Revenue & Customs | £180,000 - £184,999 | Not set |
| Mike Falvey | Chief People Officer | Director General | HM Revenue & Customs | £175,000 - £179,999 | Not set |
| Lesley Strathie | Chief Executive Officer | Permanent Secretary | HM Revenue & Customs | £170,000 - £174,999 | Not set |
| Dave Hartnett | Permanent Secretary For Tax | Permanent Secretary | HM Revenue & Customs | £160,000 - £164,999 | Not set |
| Sir Nicholas Macpherson | Permanent Secretary | Permanent Secretary | HM Treasury | £175,000 - £179,999 | Not set |
| R Shostak | Head of Prime Minister's Delivery Unit and DG Performance Management | Director General | HM Treasury | £165,000 - £169,999 | Not set |
| JMG Taylor | Financial Services and Stability Director | Director General | HM Treasury | £160,000 - £164,999 | Not set |
| TW Scholar | 2nd Permanent Secretary | Permanent Secretary | HM Treasury | £150,000 - £154,999 | Not set |
| Sir David Normington | Permanent Secretary | Permanent Secretary | Home Office | £195,000 - £199,999 | Not set |
| Helen Kilpatrick | Director General, Finance and Commercial | Director General | Home Office | £205,000 - £209,999 | Not set |
| Kevin White | Director General, Human Resources | Director General | Home Office | £190,000 - £194,999 | Not set |
| Peter Makeham | Director General, Strategy and Reform | Director General | Home Office | £160,000 - £164,999 | Not set |
| Paul Wiles | Chief Scientific Adviser, Statistics and Research Group | Director | Home Office | £155,000 - £159,999 | Retired on 31 March 2010 |
| James Hall | Chief Executive, Identity and Passport Service | Pay Band 3 | Home Office (Agency-IPS) | £195,000 - £199,999 | Not set |
| Lin Homer | Chief Executive, United Kingdom Border Agency | Pay Band 3 | Home Office (Agency-UKBA) | £205,000 - £209,999 | Not set |
| Geoffrey Podger | Chief Executive | Director General | Health & Safety Executive | £170,000 - £174,999 | Not set |
| Darra Singh | Chief Executive | Permanent Secretary | Jobcentre Plus | £185,000 - £189,999 | Not set |
| Professor Kent Woods | Chief Executive | Director General | MHRA | £190,000 - £194,999 | On secondment from the University of Leicester. |
| Professor Sir Alasdair Breckenridge | Chairman | Director General | MHRA | £90,000 - £94,999 | Contracted to work 3 days a week. |
| Sir Jock Stirrup | Chief of the Defence Staff | Air Chief Marshal | Ministry of Defence | £240,000 - £244,999 | Not set |
| Sir Mark Stanhope | First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval staff | Admiral | Ministry of Defence | £175,000 - £179,999 | Not set |
| Sir Kevin O'Donoghue | Chief of Defence Materiel | General | Ministry of Defence | £175,000 - £179,999 | Not set |
| Peter Ruddock | Saudi Arabia Project Team | Air Marshal | Ministry of Defence | £175,000 - £179,999 | Not set |
| Sir David Richards | Chief of the General Staff | General | Ministry of Defence | £165,000 - £169,999 | Not set |
| Sir Stephen Dalton | Chief of the Air Staff | Air Chief Marshal | Ministry of Defence | £165,000 - £169,999 | Not set |
| Sir Nicholas Houghton | Vice Chief of the Defence Staff | General | Ministry of Defence | £165,000 - £169,999 | Not set |
| Sir John McColl | Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe | General | Ministry of Defence | £165,000 - £169,999 | Not set |
| Sir Trevor Soar | Commander-In-Chief Fleet | Admiral | Ministry of Defence | £160,000 - £164,999 | Not set |
| Sir Peter Wall | Commander-in-Chief Land Forces | General | Ministry of Defence | £160,000 - £164,999 | Not set |
| Andrew Tyler | Chief Operating Officer Defence Equipment and Support | Director General | Ministry of Defence | £200,000 - £204,999 | Not set |
| Andrew Manley | DG Defence Commercial | Director General | Ministry of Defence | £195,000 - £199,999 | Not set |
| Sir Bill Jeffrey | Permanent Under Secretary | Permanent Secretary | Ministry of Defence | £175,000 - £179,999 | Not set |
| Jon Thompson | DG Finance | Director General | Ministry of Defence | £175,000 - £179,999 | Not set |
| John Hirst | Chief Executive Met Office | Director | Ministry of Defence | £170,000 - £174,999 | Not set |
| Mike Robinson | Chief Executive UK Hydrographic Office | Director | Ministry of Defence | £170,000 - £174,999 | Not set |
| Les Mosco | Director Commercial Defence Equipment and Support | Director | Ministry of Defence | £165,000 - £169,999 | Not set |
| Susanna Mason | Director Industrial Relationships | Director | Ministry of Defence | £160,000 - £164,999 | Not set |
| Ursula Brennan | 2nd Permanent Under Secretary | Permanent Secretary | Ministry of Defence | £155,000 - £159,999 | Not set |
| Archie Hughes | Chief Executive Defence Support Group | Director | Ministry of Defence | £155,000 - £159,999 | Not set |
| Stephen Love | Chief Executive/Chief Constable MoD Police and Guarding Agency | Director | Ministry of Defence | £155,000 - £159,999 | Not set |
| Bruce Houlder QC | Director Service Prosecutions | Director | Ministry of Defence | £150,000 - £154,999 | Not set |
| Ian Rushby | Non-Executive Director Defence Board and Chair Audit Committee | Non-Executive | Ministry of Defence | £40k | Works a minimum of 40 days per annum |
| David Allen | Non-Executive Director Defence Board and Chair Audit Committee | Non-Executive | Ministry of Defence | £30k | Works a minimum of 30 days per annum |
| Sir Richard Mottram | Non-Executive Chair Dstl | Non-Executive | Ministry of Defence | £40k | Works a minimum of 40 days per annum |
| Sandra Rogers | Non-Executive Chair UKHO | Non-Executive | Ministry of Defence | £40k | Works a minimum of 40 days per annum |
| Jamie Pike | Non-Executive Chair DSG | Non-Executive | Ministry of Defence | £40k | Works a minimum of 40 days per annum |
| Robert Napier | Non-Executive Chair Met Office | Non-Executive | Ministry of Defence | £40k | Works a minimum of 40 days per annum |
| Suma Chakrabarti | Permanent Secretary | Permanent Secretary | Ministry of Justice | £180,000 - £184,999 | Not set |
| Carolyn Downs | Director General - Corporate Performance Group and Deputy Permanent Secretary (now Interim Chief Executive of the Legal Services Commission) | Director General | Ministry of Justice | £165,000 - £169,999 | Not set |
| Helen Edwards | Director General - Criminal Justice Group (now Director General - Justice Policy Group) | Director General | Ministry of Justice | £160,000 - £164,999 | Not set |
| Jim Gallagher | Director General - Devolution | Director General | Ministry of Justice | £175,000 - £179,999 | Not set |
| Neil Hayward | Group HR Director | Director | Ministry of Justice | £150,000 - £154,999 | Not set |
| Andy Nelson | Chief Information Officer | Director | Ministry of Justice | £190,000 - £194,999 | Not set |
| Nick Ramsay | Director ICT Portfolio and Programmes | Director | Ministry of Justice | £160,000 - £164,999 | Not set |
| Beverley Shears | Director of Offender Management - East Midlands | Director | National Offender Management Service (MoJ Executive Agency) | £150,000 - £154,999 | Not set |
| Phil Wheatley | Director General - National Offender Management Service | Director General | National Offender Management Service (MoJ Executive Agency) | £160,000 - £164,999 | Not set |
| Jane Platt | Chief Executive | Not set | National Savings & Investments | £190,000 - £194,999 | Not set |
| Sir Jonathan Phillips | Permanent Secretary | Permanent Secretary | Northern Ireland Office | £160,000 - £164,999 | Retired on 13 May, not replaced |
| Christine Gilbert | Her Majesty's Chief Inspector | Permanent Secretary | OFSTED | £195,000 - £199,999 | Not set |
| Lorraine Langham | Director, Corporate Services | Director | OFSTED | £165,000 - £169,999 | Not set |
| Melanie Hunt | Director, Development Learning and Skills | Director | OFSTED | £160,000 - £164,999 | Not set |
| John Goldup | Director, Development Social Care | Director | OFSTED | £150,000 - £154,999 | Not set |
| Patrick Leeson | Director, Development Education and Care | Director | OFSTED | £150,000 - £154,999 | Not set |
| Philip Collins | Chairman | Not set | Office of Fair Trading | £175,000 - £179,999 | Not set |
| John Fingleton | Chief Executive | Not set | Office of Fair Trading | £275,000 - £279,999 | Not set |
| William Emery | Chief Executive | Director | Office of Rail Regulation | £160,000 - £164,999 | Not set |
| Philip Fletcher | Chairman | Not set | Ofwat | £105,000 - £110,000 | Works 3 days per week |
| D Pitchford | Major Projects Executive Director | Director | OGC | £200,000 - £204,999 | Not set |
| N Smith | Chief Executive | Permanent Secretary | OGC | £185,000 - £189,999 | Not set |
| DA Shields | Programme Director | Director | OGC | £205,000 - £209,999 | Not set |
| Vanessa Lawrence | Director General & Chief Executive Officer | Director General | Ordnance Survey | £190,000 - £194,999 | Not set |
| Paul Hemsley | Director of Finance | Director | Ordnance Survey | £220,000 - £224,999 | Fixed Term Appointment |
| Terry Moran | Chief Executive | Director General | Pension, Disability & Carers Service | £155,000 - £159,999 | Not set |
| Nigel Stapleton | Chairman | Not set | Postcomm | £85,000 - £89,999 | 2.5 days per week |
| Tim Brown | Chief Executive | Not set | Postcomm | £150,000 - £154,999 | Not set |
| Sir Alisdair Fraser | Director of Public Prosecution, NI | Director of Public Prosecutions | Public Prosecution Service | £170,000 - £174,999 | This post became part of the NI PPS, an NMDB, from 12 April 2010 |
| Sir John Elvidge | Permanent Secretary | Permanent Secretary | Scottish Government | £160,000 - £164,999 | Leaving on 21 June 2010 |
| Dr Kevin Woods | Director General, Health and Chief Executive NHS Scotland | Director General | Scottish Government | £160,000 - £164,999 | Not set |
| Ms Stella Manzie | Director General,Justice and Communities | Director General | Scottish Government | £150,000 - £154,999 | Not set |
| Richard Alderman | Director | Director General | Serious Fraud Office | £165,000 - £169,999 | Not set |
| Paul Jenkins Q.C. | Treasury Solicitor | Permanent Secretary | Treasury Solicitors Department | £155,000 - £159,999 | Not set |
| Sir Michael Scholar | Chair of UK Statistics Authority | NA | UK Statistics Authority | £150,000 - £154,999 | at least 3 days per week |
| Professor Sir Roger Jowell | Deputy Chair (Statistics System) | NA | UK Statistics Authority | £35,000-£39,999 | at least 4 days per month |
| Lord David Rowe-Beddoe of Kilgetty | Deputy Chair (ONS) | NA | UK Statistics Authority | £35,000-£39,999 | at least 4 days per month |
| Sir Andrew Cahn | Chief Executive, UK Trade & Investment | Director General | UKTI (joint BIS/FCO) | £205,000 - £209,999 | Not set |
| Richard Paniguian | Head of UK Trade & Investment Defence and Security Organsation | Director | UKTI (joint BIS/FCO) | £195,000 - £199,999 | Not set |
| Fiona Adshead | Director General on secondment | Director General | World Health Organisation | £160,000 - £164,999 | On secondment |