The retirement pot for Britain's top civil servants - funded entirely by taxpayers - has risen to a record £138million.
Just over 200 mandarins in Whitehall are sitting on massive 'gold-plated' pensions worth almost £700,000 each.
The officials, many of whom have presided over a series of blunders, saw their final-salary schemes soar by £16million this year, research shows.
The biggest winner is Mark Britnell, the £215,000-a-year National Health Service director-general for commissioning and system management, who has a pension pot worth £3.1million.
On his watch GPs' salaries have risen by more than 50 per cent, even though they now work seven fewer hours a week.
Sir Liam Donaldson, the chief medical officer condemned for his lack of leadership during the doctors' training and recruitment fiasco, has built up a £2.2million pot.
And Sir Gus O'Donnell, Cabinet Secretary and head of the Civil Service, has an accumulated a pension fund of more than £2million, worth more than £145,000 a year.
Men who oversaw the financial crisis can also expect bumper pensions. Nicholas Macpherson, Permanent Secretary to the Treasury, has a pot worth £882,000. Stephen Pickford, a key player in the bank bail-out, has £1.1million.
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Meanwhile, your pension pot isn't worth pissing in.
