The London Development Agency paid 64 individual employees and consultants more than £100,000 each in the last financial year,  it has emerged today.

The regional development agency is among the five quangos with the highest earning workers, revealed today by BBC programme Panorama in collaboration with the Bureau of Investigative Journalism.

In a list of 9,000 public sector employees which are paid more than the prime minister, those at the Olympic Delivery Authority and the LDA are among the highest earning quango workers. The ODA has 29 employees earning more than £100,000.

Howard Shiplee, director of construction at the ODA, is paid £390,000. Meanwhile, the unnamed improvement programme manager and the head of design and development at the LDA earn £307,500 and £292,500 respectively.

Among local authorities, Wandsworth Borough Council, Cornwall County Councl, and Kent County Council employ 99 people on more than £100,000 altogether.

There are fewer six figure earners in some central government departments, with the Cabinet Office employing 22 people on more than the prime minister and Communities and Local Government employing nine in total.

In the Cabinet Office, this includes the head of the government’s Property Unit, John McCready.

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