Scottish Water: Freeing up £140m would be the real bonus

The chief executive of Scottish Water has said he will donate a quarter of his bonus to charity.

Last year, he earned a performance bonus of £101,000 - 38% of his salary of £263,000.

Derek Brownlee MSP, Shadow Cabinet Secretary for Finance & Sustainable Growth, says:

"There has rightly been a lot said about big bonuses in the public sector, especially in these difficult economic times caused by Labour's recession.

"The issue here is that Scottish Water needs to be taken out of state control to free up £140m of public spending, to be spent on other frontline services. Scottish Conservatives have continually been calling for this to happen.

"If we pushed ahead we would save 5,600 times the amount Mr Ackroyd is himself donating, every year. That would be a £140m bonus for taxpayers in Scotland."

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