I always believed that an incentive that leads to something against the public interest could be considered to be perverse.

Looking at the Chilcot Enquiry Website I find:

Members of the Iraq Inquiry Committee are paid at the following rates: Chairman – £790 per day; Committee members – £565 per day. These rates have not changed since the beginning of the Inquiry.

If I was being paid £790 a day I would not hurry to complete the report and loose this nice source of income. This is a very perverse incentive.

I suspect that the report could have been produced much earlier if Sir John had been offered a lump sum of, say, £100,000.

David Walker

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