Charity founded by Jeremy Hunt paid 66% of income to chief executive

Smith resigned as an adviser to Hunt over a scandal in which he had exchanged messages with a lobbyist for Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. Photograph: Andrew Winning/Reuters

A charity founded by the chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, paid more than £110,000 – two-thirds of its income – to his former political adviser Adam Smith, who lost his job over a lobbying scandal.

Patient Safety Watch, which was set up to research preventable harm in healthcare, paid Smith as its sole employee and chief executive about 66% of its income in the year ending January 2022.