Roll call of the fat cats
Persimmon: CEO Jeff Fairburn was paid £100million after the firm profited from the taxpayer-funded Help to Buy scheme. He agreed to hand back £25million after half of investors voted it down. He quit in November last year but kept his £75million.
Royal Mail: It paid a £5.8million ‘golden hello’ in 2018 to incoming CEO Rico Back and paid the outgoing boss £900,000. Seven in ten investors voted against the deal.
BT: Boss Gavin Patterson was handed a £2.3million package weeks before sacking 13,000 staff. His deal included a bonus of £1.3million.
Foxtons: The boss of the London-based estate agents, Nic Budden, was given a £218,000 bonus in 2017 despite profits falling two- thirds and share dividends in the company collapsing.