Update: Top civil servant sacked by Starmer received record £860,000 payout

The Guardian — Politics has reported on “Update: Top civil servant sacked by Starmer received record £860,000 payout,” presenting it as the central development in the source material available for this brief.

The available account reports that special approval needed for amount that surpassed what Chris Wormald was ‘contractually entitled to’ The former head of the civil service Chris Wormald received a record payout of almost £860,000 when he was forced out of the top job in Whitehall by Keir Starmer. The report also notes that Cabinet Office accounts have revealed that the former cabinet secretary, who was sacked earlier this year , was paid £859,496 upon departure. The figure is an unprecedented amount, which required civil servants to seek a special direction from ministers to approve it because it was “greater than what Sir Chris Wormald would be contractually entitled to”.

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