However, ISS noted that she remained a member of the remuneration committee and said it "does not consider her to be independent; she remains a member of the remuneration committee, which should be wholly independent".
The minutes note only that the Lord Patten, the BBC Trust chairman, had "spoken to members of the trust's remuneration and appointments committee earlier in the day and agreed the terms of George Entwistle's departure from the BBC, as a consensual termination".
The three members of SCC's independent remuneration panel (IRP) made recommendations to the full council meeting on 6 May.
At last year's annual meeting more than 43% of voting members rejected his remuneration package of £927,000 in pay and bonuses and an £866,000 top-up to his pension.
Mr Ford said he also believed the rates of remuneration for policing board members were "very significantly in excess of those of any public body across Northern Ireland" and that this was "unsustainable" in the current financial climate.
The members of the council will receive remuneration of expenses and an honorarium to compensate for loss of potential earnings during their work for SMAC.
It would, he said, revoke pension benefits from a retired member of Congress who accepts "any kind of remuneration — a salary, a consulting fee, even an honorarium for a speech — from any company that employs a registered lobbyist".
"We need another careful look and try to wean companies off so-called experts that have set up an industry advising companies," said Helena Morrissey, chair of the Investment Association and member of the executive remuneration working group it established last year.
If the government can be supportive in this area of remuneration then we shall be on track.' (Members of the Siaya District Health Management Team) 'If I were a supervisor, (CHWs) would be given some tokens like money, or writing materials for writing reports.' 'The help we would prefer is remuneration.
"We've all hidden behind formulae" to calculate the level of remuneration instead of having "enough faith in remuneration committee members to apply their judgment," Mr. Lee said.
