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Written Question
Ministers: Redundancy Pay
Thursday 13th October 2022

Asked by: Andy Slaughter (Labour - Hammersmith and Chiswick)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much was spent on severance pay for Ministers who were appointed on 8 July 2022 and who left office on or shortly after 6 September 2022.

Answered by Edward Argar

Details of the severance payments made to ministers when leaving office are published in departments’ annual reports and accounts.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 19 Jul 2022
Contaminated Blood Scandal: Interim Payments for Victims

"Most of us here represent constituents who are victims of the contaminated blood scandal. As they have waited for justice for so long, there is often quite a long gap between our hearing from them, and we wonder, “Have they moved away? Have they just been exhausted by the process? …..."
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Written Question
Civil Servants
Tuesday 12th July 2022

Asked by: Andy Slaughter (Labour - Hammersmith and Chiswick)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many applications were submitted to the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments by civil servants on the prospective roles they intended to take after leaving positions in Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs between 1 April 2015 and 31 March 2022.

Answered by Michael Ellis

22 applications were submitted to the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments by civil servants in Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs between 1 April 2015 and 31 March 2022

Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 07 Jul 2022
Functioning of Government

"Given that a majority of Government MPs now say that the Prime Minister lacks the integrity and honesty required for that post, can the Minister explain what the basis is for the Prime Minister to stay in post for a further three months?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 05 Jul 2022
Standards in Public Life

"The Minister has stated that the Prime Minister’s current defence in this matter is, “I was told but I forgot.” The Minister mentioned his time in practice. If a client had produced that defence, what advice would he have given him, and would he have put him in the witness …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 22 Jun 2022
Bill of Rights

"This morning, the distinguished legal commentator, Joshua Rozenberg, summed up this Bill not as the biggest constitutional tour de force in more than 300 years or the apex of the Justice Secretary’s career, but as a ragbag of restrictions. It will undoubtedly cause harm to many thousands of our citizens, …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 24 May 2022
Oral Answers to Questions

"Given the constitutional importance of his role, is the Lord Chancellor considering his position in the Cabinet in the light of the Foreign Affairs Committee report on the withdrawal from Afghanistan?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 24 May 2022
Oral Answers to Questions

"Approved premises house the highest risk offenders—terrorists and serious sex offenders—on release from custody. Their location is sensitive both for rehabilitation and protection of the public. Why on earth, therefore, is the Ministry of Justice building approved premises next to the main entrance of Wormwood Scrubs Prison, when the counter-terrorism …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 22 Mar 2022
Oral Answers to Questions

"If, as the Secretary of State said earlier, he is concerned about the oppressive use of litigation costs in SLAPP cases, will he look into the same problems in respect of media cases? Will he consider introducing—perhaps in his Bill of Rights—the type of low-cost arbitration recommended by the Leveson …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 15 Mar 2022
Legal Aid

"Does the Secretary of State now accept that the swingeing cuts in the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 have hobbled access to justice for a decade? Does he accept what the chair of the Criminal Bar Association, Jo Sidhu, said about the announcement today, which was …..."
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