Charles Wake, chair of St Andrew’s Healthcare, which recently came under fire for giving its chief executive a salary of £653,000, will give evidence to the Public Administration Select Committee next week on charity chief executive pay.

Wake, will join fellow chairs Martyn Lewis from NCVO and Mark Wood from NSPCC in Parliament next week.

Caron Bradshaw, CEO of CFG, Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow, CEO of Mary’s Meals, Sir Stephen Bubb, CEO of Acevo and Carolyn Gray, trustee of Christian Aid will also give evidence to the Committee.

Wake is likely to be given a hard time by MPs for signing off the pay package of St Andrew’s Healthcare chief executive Professor Sugarman. In the year 2012/13 Sugarman received an 18 per cent pay rise, taking his package from £552,000 to £653,000. The news attracted press criticism.

The charity has said that a subsequent large pay cut for Sugarman - he is now earning £325,000 - will be reflected in its next set of financial accounts.

PASC member Priti Patel has in recent months been heavily critical in the press about levels of charity pay, but speaking to civilsociety.co.uk Lewis, who is also chairing a sector-led group developing guidelines on setting pay in charities, said he has met Patel, and believes she now “gets it”.