Tax payers giving Marie Stopes and IPPF chiefs a six-figure Salary
18/12/2016 Daily Mail
The Daily Mail has exposed the salarys of the chiefs of some "not-for-profit charities" this week including global abortion providers Marie Stopes International and International Planned Parenthood Federation - at the expense of British tax payers!
An investigation by this newspaper has discovered that charity chiefs are taking home astonishing pay packages worth up to £618,000 a year and ramping up spending on senior staff.
These massive sums spent on staff by charities begging for money from the Government and its generous citizens are the latest example of ‘fat cats’ profiting from Britain’s £12 billion aid giveaway.
Already Mail on Sunday exposés over profiteering and dirty tricks among private firms paid hundreds of millions to deliver aid have led to separate inquiries by the Department for International Development (DFID) and MPs on the International Development Committee.
Simon Cooke, British boss of Marie Stopes International, has been given £46.3 million by DFID towards 'family planning' around the planet. Mr Cooke was paid £420,755 in 2015, with a bonus of £251,831 dwarfing his £168,924 basic salary. The previous year he earned almost £500,000, according to US tax data. The outfit has 22 staff with basic salaries in six figures.
International Planned Parenthood Federation, another abortion provider part based in London, was given £25.8 million in 2013 under PPA. It handed director Carmen Barroso £344,396 last year, according to US tax data – a rise of £54,009 in just five years.
The group’s annual accounts list at least 14 more staff paid basic salaries in excess of £100,000. It also lets its most senior officials take business-class flights and even more junior staff can use premium-plus on longer trips.
The payments were condemned last night by Tory MP Pauline Latham, a member of the International Development Committee. She said she would be demanding an urgent inquiry by the committee into ‘excessive’ salary packages.
‘[...] The public will be very concerned. These are not normal salaries – even some big businesses do not pay these kinds of amounts.’