BBC News, Yorkshire
House of Commons/ReutersA group of Yorkshire Labor MPs have written to its Chief Executive Officer to seek reply on the “derogatory” payment made to its Chief Executive Officer.
MPs, including Roder Valley’s Jake Richards and Bradford West MP Naz Shah, are addressing £ 1.3M in the first undeclared payment paid to Yorkshire Water Boss Nikola Shaw.
The company has earlier defended the payment, saying that they were from Kalda Holdings, the original company of the firm, which is offshore.
MPs have now called the company’s chair Vanda Murray for full transparency on payment.
Richards said: “At a time when components are facing a 41% increase in water bills, sewage is polluting our rivers, and pipes are bursting, CEOs are accepting payments that completely contradicts their public statements.
“Nikola Shaw promised that she would reduce the bonus with respect for public anger, while privately she accepts even more money.”
He said that this was the reason that public confidence in water companies was “rock bottom”.
Yorkshire Water, which announced a hosspipe ban for millions of users in July, was one of the six firms banned on paying “inappropriate” bonuses to its authorities this year.
A report in Guardian said Ms. Shaw received £ 1.3m in an already undeclared additional salary From 2023, from the original company of Yorkshire Water, Banana Holdings.
The company said that it was for work, including “investor engagement, financial monitoring and management of the Kelda Group”, and the money came from shareholders.
It said that the payment was made in addition to its £ 660,000 salary, and came from Kalda Holdings, which is registered in Jersey.
Yorkshire waterIn the letter to Ms. Murray, the MPs said: “It is humiliating that Ms. Shaw has publicly denied the bonus and still accepted the big payment.”
It is also a series of detailed questions, in which he was paid £ 1.3m in addition to his salary, why is Yorkshire Water based in Water based and if Ms. Shaw had an indirect option for payment bonuses, she publicly declined?
MPs are included to sign the letter:
- Abtisam Mohammed, Sheffield Central
- Clive Bates, Sheffield South East
- Richard Bergon, Leeds East
- Anna Dixon, Shiple
- Josh Fanton-Gylin, Calder Valley
- Gill furniture, sheffield brightside and hillsboro
- Fabian Hamilton, Leeds North East
- Alison Hume, Scarborough and Whitbi
- Jake Richards, Roder Valley
- Naz Shah, Bradford West
- Alex Sobel, Leeds Central and Headingly
- Mary Tidball, Penistone and Stockbridge
Yorkshire Water has recently been fined several times for failures on waste water and sewage, including march when the regulator’s regulator had to pay £ 40M.
The company was Ording to pay more than £ 900,000 Hundreds of fish died after polluting a waterfall with millions of liters of chlorinated water last month.
And in May, the company was ordered to pay £ 350,000 after a watercourse at Northern Yorkshire, which was polluted with sewage.
Hosspipe ban was also introduced on 11 July The reservoir shares were left less after a very hot and dry season period across the country.
Julia Bryson/BBCYorkshire Water said that there was no additional comment regarding the letter.
However, the firm had earlier told Kalda Holdings about payment to Ms. Shaw, as part of her role as he “does some work for the benefit of Kelda Group, the original company of Yorkshire Water, Kelda Group”.
The work includes “investor engagement, financial monitoring and management and management of the Kalda Group, which is recognized by a fee of £ 660K paid by shareholders”.
This said that it does not believe that the work done on the activities related to the investor should be paid by the water customers of Yorkshire.
The company stated that the fee “reflects the significant importance of work during this period which was led by Nicola in earning long -term investment for Yorkshire’s water”.
It said: “We are firm to improve our performance so that we can give our share in creating a rich Yorkshire, correct for our customers and environment.”
