UNITED KINGDOM
BBC News
The judge leading the inquiry into historical child sex abuse in England and Wales is to receive a pay packet worth more than £480,000 a year.
Justice Lowell Goddard is to receive a salary of £360,000, an annual rental allowance of £110,000 and £12,000 a year to cover utilities.
The Home Office will also cover the cost of four return flights from the UK to the judge’s native New Zealand.
The inquiry is examining how public bodies handled abuse claims.
At its opening on 9 July, Justice Goddard said there were suggestions one child in every 20 in the UK had been sexually abused.
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