UNITED KINGDOM
Telegraph

By David Barrett, Home Affairs Correspondent
13 Jul 2015

Justice Lowell Goddard, the senior New Zealand judge appointed to head the Government’s child sex abuse inquiry, will be paid £360,000 a year with a further £122,000 in allowances, it has been disclosed.

The Home Office will also pay for four business class return flights for her and her husband a year between New Zealand and Britain, plus two return economy flights a year for unspecified “immediate family” members.

The unexpected size of Justice Goddard’s remuneration package means she is expected to received about £2.5 million in pay and allowances over the course of the inquiry, which she said last week is due to run until late 2020.

Justice Goddard’s salary alone is two and a half times that of David Cameron, the Prime Minister, who earns £142,500.

It is also substantially more than the highest-paid…