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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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David Lynch

Treasury minister defends £950-a-day pay of new value for money tsar

Darren Jones said it is ‘right’ that the Government pays people for their time (Jordan Pettitt/PA) - (PA Wire)

The £950-a-day pay which the Government’s new value for money tsar will receive is fair, a minister has said.

David Goldstone will be paid the equivalent of just under £50,000 a year when he takes up the position of chairman of the new Office for Value for Money, working an average of one day a month in the role.

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