Twenty-two employees of Marie Stopes, the troubled abortion provider, were paid more than £100,000 last year, with its boss banking almost half a million pounds.
The charity — which receives millions in public funds and had its abortion services suspended earlier this year — paid Simon Cooke, its chief executive, £420,755 in 2015, including a performance-related bonus of a quarter of a million pounds.
A report this week by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) criticised the charity’s leadership after inspectors found dead foetuses lying in an open bin and staff trying to give a vulnerable, visibly distressed woman an abortion without her consent.
The Times can reveal that the board of trustees at Marie Stopes had “no knowledge” of the failures at its UK clinics