The latest accounts from the Climate Change Committee – a taxpayer-funded body which tracks and advocates for measures to push Britain closer to Net Zero – show its chief executives have been handed a plum pay increase. Miliband’s ‘don’t eat meat any more‘ vanguard wouldn’t go unrewarded…
Chief Executive Chris Stark was in 2023/4 paid up to £210,000 for his work. Guido caught Stark providing advertising for a heat pump brand at the time of his departure from the role…
His replacement James Richardson enjoyed remuneration last year to the tune of £225,000 – his salary was boosted by a handsome pension benefit package. Stark was paid £15,000 by the body last year…
Total funding for the growing organisation has also gone up. Staff costs have rocketed from £4,610,583 in 2023/4 to £5,166,863 just twelve months later. Total operating expenditure is up from £6,711,820 to £8,258,989. A Labour minister has today defended the ballooning costs: “The CCC has a vital role providing independent, expert advice on reducing emissions and adapting to the impacts of climate change, and staff numbers have risen to manage the increased demands from the CCC’s work programme.” Hop on the gravy train while you can…
Miliband is today boasting about locking in £95/MWh prices for offshore wind in the latest auction round. The average electricity price last year was £80. Subsidise or die…
