Car crash / Why is the Motability boss getting a bumper pay rise? |
Until Rachel Reeves tightened the rules in last month’s Budget, Motability customers were able to sink into the leather seats of a top-of-the-range Mercedes. But however luxurious the upholstery, it can’t have been as thick and durable as the rhinoceros skin of Motability boss Andrew Miller. He has just been awarded a 23 per cent pay rise to £924,000. There are no prizes for guessing who is contributing to the largesse shown to him by his board. Nearly half of Motability’s £8.1 billion spending last year was covered by the government’s exploding welfare budget.
Motability has been under the spotlight
Just how impervious to public opinion do you have to be to accept such a rise when you know your organisation is under close public scrutiny? Motability has been under the spotlight since September when Matt Ryder, who was formerly head of policy on this issue at the DWP, wrote a report for the Adam Smith Institute........