Equality chief takes pay cut

The interim boss of the UK's equalities watchdog has taken a pay cut – to £150,000 a year – it was revealed today as MPs launched a fresh attack on the body's spending.

Neil Kinghan, director general of the Equalities and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), was on 1,000 a day from May 2009 until January this year.

In a scathing report, the Commons Public Accounts Committee said that was a total bill to taxpayers of 138,000 excluding VAT and said a permanent chief executive should be appointed "as soon as possible".

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A spokesman for the commission said Mr Kinghan's contract had now been extended to September, with a selection process for a replacement due to be discussed by the board next month. But he has been brought within the staff payroll of the commission on a salary of 150,000.

Mr Kinghan's appointment followed a "flawed and inefficient" process of mergers to establish the new commission, said the committee.

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