Ministers’ Severance Pay

Debate between Heather Wheeler and Matt Western

Monday 11th July 2022 Commons Chamber

[Matt Western (Warwick and Leamington) (Lab)]

I understand that approximately £400,000 will be paid out in severance payments. Will the Minister agree to publish a full list of the amounts being paid out to those individuals? Will she confirm that these moneys will be coming from Departments, such as the Department for Education, and will therefore have an impact on the budgets of much-pressed Departments and, for example, on schools or other institutions?

[Mrs Wheeler]

The hon. Gentleman asks a perfectly reasonable question. It is laid out in statute how the amounts and payments are made, and it is in the annual accounts of the Departments.