§ Mr. RedmondTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, pursuant to his answer to the hon. Member for Copeland (Dr. Cunningham),Official Report, 12 January, column 742, if he will make a statement on the performance targets set for the chairman of Yorkshire water authority in 1987–88, and if he will specify the annual bonus received by the chairman of the Yorkshire water authority in each of the last four years.
§ Mr. MoynihanInformation about Government controls on the Yorkshire water authority, including performance aims and achievement against them, is set out in the authority's annual report and accounts for 1987–88 on pages 59–62. A copy is available in the Library.
Water authority chairmen and executive board members were first eligible for performance bonuses in respect of 1986–87. The chairman of the Yorkshire water authority received a bonus of 11–5 per cent. of his annual salary for that year and 13 per cent. for 1987–88.