Treasury minister defends pay packet of new value-for-money chief

The UK's treasury minister has defended the £950-a-day pay which the Government’s new value-for-money tsar will receive.
Darren Jones, a Bristol North West MP, said the rate of return for the improvements the UK would make looking at areas of spending "will be far, far greater".
Speaking to LBC about David Goldstone, who will head up the new Office for Value for Money (OVFM), he sa
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