ALEX Salmond has defended the decision to allow the £200,000-a-year chief executive of Scottish Enterprise to earn further pay of more than one-quarter of that sum by sitting on the board of a private company.
Challenged on the issue at First Minister's Questions, he told Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie to look at the widespread support for the appointment across the business community before criticising the move.
He also highlighted the fact that, in common with 80% of senior public sector figures entitled to bonuses under contracts dating back to the Labour-LibDem coalition at Holyrood, Lena Wilson had decided to forego that bonus.
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