Dear Ministry of Transport,

Can you please tell me the total annual salary costs for the CE and each of the CE’s direct reports. I only want the total figure of number of people involved and total annual salary costs for all those people, I do not want to know the individual salary levels for any specific person, and I am sure that you would not tell me that anyway.

Can you please provide me the above information for each of the last five years as at say 1 December 2017 and the four prior years. If 1 December as a date is too much work, then the information as at some other suitable, relatively recent, date will be fine, along with the prior four years data.

Thanks in advance and I look forward to your reply.

Yours faithfully,

Cindy Black