Richard Ackroyd, chief executive of Scottish Water, earns £263,000 a year and had not been among the handful of quango chiefs who responded positively to the appeal by Finance Secretary John Swinney for a waiving of this year’s bonuses.
Scotland’s highest-paid public servant has responded to the campaign for quango chiefs to waive their bonuses by diverting a quarter of his bonus to charity.
Richard Ackroyd, chief executive of Scottish Water, earns £263,000 a year and had not been among the handful of quango chiefs who responded positively to the appeal by Finance Secretary John Swinney for a waiving of this year’s bonuses.