🟥 𝐊𝐡𝐚𝐧’𝐬 𝐬𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐭 𝐓𝐟𝐋, 𝐩𝐚𝐢𝐝 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐥𝐮𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐃𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝐚 𝐦𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐯𝐞 £𝟔𝟎𝟎,𝟎𝟎𝟎 𝐠𝐨𝐥𝐝𝐞𝐧 𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐤𝐞

🟥 𝐊𝐡𝐚𝐧’𝐬 𝐬𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐭 𝐓𝐟𝐋, 𝐩𝐚𝐢𝐝 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐥𝐮𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐃𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝐚 𝐦𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐯𝐞 £𝟔𝟎𝟎,𝟎𝟎𝟎 𝐠𝐨𝐥𝐝𝐞𝐧 𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐤𝐞, weeks before starting his new role as Transport commissioner for Manchester. 

 Vernon Everitt will now be paid £650 per day in his new role. 

Manchester’s new Transport Commissioner banked more than £600,000 in taxpayer’s money after leaving Transport for London, before joining Greater Manchester a few weeks later. 

Previously a director at TfL for 14 years, he received a massive £352,697 for loss of office, plus 200,294 in loo of 12 months notice and a £71,180 delayed bonus for the previous year. It’s understood to be the biggest annual remuneration ever paid by TfL. 

He left the board in January as part of cost-saving measures, only to take up his position in Greater Manchester in May.

The figures, featured in TfL's draft Remuneration Report and Statement of Accounts for the year ended March 31, 2022, were considered at TfL’s Audit and Assurance Committee meeting on June 6. 

Mr Everitt was among 597 TfL and Crossrail staff to have earned six figures in 20021/22, compared with 455 the previous year.

On Mr Everitt's pay-out, a TFL spokesman said: "Vernon Everitt’s compensation for loss of employment following the restructure of TfL’s Executive Team reflected his length of employment within TfL and his severance payment also included twelve months’ contractual notice pay. 

𝐓𝐀𝐗𝐈 𝐋𝐄𝐀𝐊𝐒 𝐄𝐗𝐓𝐑𝐀 𝐁𝐈𝐓:

In removing this position from the “Executive Team” (expected to save TfL hundreds of thousands of pounds each year), they are literally proving what we’ve all said for years that TfL are over staffed and over paid.