Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much (a) has been and (b) will be paid under the Ministerial and Other Pensions and Salaries Act 1991 to ministers who left Government from 1 July to 25 October.

​​Under the Ministerial and Other Pensions and Salaries Act 1991, eligible Ministers who leave office are entitled to severance pay of a quarter of their annual salary. This applies only where a Minister is under 65 and is not appointed to a ministerial office within three weeks of leaving government.

Individual departments are responsible for the payment of salaries and severance payments to current and former Ministers and, as such, the information requested by the Hon. gentleman is not held centrally. Departments are required to publish compensation payments paid to former Ministers as part of their Annual Report & Accounts.