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EXCLUSIVE SS Article 3 - Extra Hours
Not only has the board voted its own members salary increases – “fees and pension” as WPBSA describes it – but also payments for “extra hours.”
This begs the question of “extra to what?” If each board member is expected to work a certain number of hours, the membership has never been informed what that number is. Nor is there any indication of an hourly rate on which those extra payments might be based.
Jim McMahon was paid £16,380 as a director of WPBSA Ltd, another £16,380 as a director of its wholly owed subsidiary, World Snooker Ltd, and received in addition “extra hours” payments of £75 in relation to WSL and a whopping £9,391 for WPBSA.
How many “extra hours” did he work?
McMahon also claimed £987 for “telephone and sundries” and also benefited to the tune of £1,792 for medical insurance. This burly Scot’s fortunes have clearly improved substantially since his days as a Glasgow taxi driver and proprietor of a failed driving school.
In second place in the “extra hours” category is Lee Doyle with £3,875 (plus £1,592 for medical insurance), shading into third place Dr Hamish McInnes, who to a chorus of “who’s he?” was recruited to the board by Walker. McInnes was paid £3,175 for extra hours. Mike Dunn took fourth place with £2,775.
We make no comment on travelling, subsistence or accommodation expenses. Some board members, particularly those resident in Scotland, tend to have the furthest to travel to meetings.
Walker’s claim of £58 for entertaining may not have precluded other entertaining by him and/ or others which may simply have been signed for.
Do they also advice Mr Karsai in Afganistan?
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