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The Guardian - UK
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Jasper Jolly

London ‘super sewer’ boss awarded £600,000 pay rise despite £100m cost overrun

London Andy Mitchell
A person in hi-vis clothing standing in a large tunnel
A civil engineer walks inside a cavernous 7-metre concrete tunnel at a Thames Tideway building site in west London in 2023. Photograph: Daniel Leal/AFP/Getty Images

The chief executive of the London “super sewer” project has been awarded a £600,000 pay rise even as the firm revealed that the total cost had risen by £100m.

Andy Mitchell received pay of £2.5m for the year to March 2025, up from £1.9m the year before, according to accounts published by the Thames Tideway tunnel builder, Bazalgette Tunnel Limited.

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