Persimmon chief's £75m bonus 'almost unfathomable' – Raab

Housing minister says he is ‘not comfortable’ with effects of help to buy on housebuilders’ payHousebuilder Persimmon’s award of a £75m bonus to its chief executive, Jeff Fairburn, was “almost unfathomable”, the housing minister, Dominic Raab, has told MPs. Persimmon faced fierce criticism earlier this year after it emerged that a rise in profits, which has been attributed to the taxpayer-backed help-to-buy scheme, would trigger more than £2oom in