Asked by: Ian Murray (Labour - Edinburgh South)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of the redundancy packages required for the creation of the new Government.
Answered by Oliver Dowden - Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
This information is not held centrally.
Section 4 of the Ministerial and other Pensions and Salaries Act 1991 sets out Ministers’ entitlement to severance payments. Payments to individuals are processed by the relevant departments. Any such payments are published in each department’s audited annual accounts, and these accounts can be found on GOV.UK.
When their appointing Minister leaves office, special advisers are entitled to a severance payment, to be paid in accordance with the terms set out in the Model Contract for Special Advisers, which can be found on GOV.UK. The cost of special advisers is published and laid before Parliament on an annual basis and is available on GOV.UK.
Asked by: Ian Murray (Labour - Edinburgh South)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of including in the Consolidated Guidance on rendition and torture the removal of persons to other countries without judicial supervision for purposes such as interrogation or detention.
Answered by David Lidington
Sir Adrian Fulford, the Investigatory Powers Commissioner, has submitted a proposed
revised version of the Consolidated Guidance to the Government for consideration
The Government is looking carefully at his proposals and will respond in due course.