UNITED KINGDOM
Daily Mail
By JENNY AWFORD FOR MAILONLINE
The senior New Zealand judge flown in to lead the historic child sex abuse inquiry is to receive a pay package worth £500,000 a year plus 10 return flights to her native country, it has been revealed.
Justice Lowell Goddard, who officially opened the inquiry last week, will be paid a salary of £360,000 a year with a rental allowance of £110,000 a year and a £12,000 utility allowance on top.
The Home Office will also fund four business class return flights for the High Court judge and her husband to return to New Zealand plus a further two return flights for family members.
Justice Goddard is expected to receive around £2.5million in pay and allowances over the course of the inquiry, which she said last week is due to run until late 2020.
This means she would be the highest paid public servant in Britain in terms of her basic salary which is also two and a half times that of Prime Minister David Cameron.
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