UK’s biggest housebuilders hand top bosses bumper bonuses

Persimmon chief received 2.6m package in 2021 with outgoing Taylor Wimpey boss gaining 2.8m

Persimmon and Taylor Wimpey, Britain's two biggest housebuilders, handed their chief executives bumper bonuses last year, when building bounced back amid a house price boom.

Persimmon boss Dean Finch received a total pay and bonus package of 2.6m last year, the York-based builder's annual report showed. That compared with 218,326 in 2020, although he only took over as boss in September of that year.