Department for Transport: Redundancy Pay
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the cost to her Department was of ministerial severance payments in each year from 19 December 2019 to 30 May 2024; which Ministers received a severance payment; and how much each Minister received.
Answered by Mike Kane
Since 19 December 2019 to 30 May 2024 the cost of ministerial severance payments are as follows:
19 December 2019 – 31 December 2019: nil
1 January 2020 – 31 December 2020: nil
1 January 2021 – 31 December 2021: nil
1 January 2022 – 31 December 2022: £41,575
1 January 2023 – 31 December 2023: £7,920
1 January 2024 – 30 May 2024: nil
The following Ministers received a severance payment of the following value:
Grant Shapps MP received a compensation payment of £16,876 when he left Government on 6 September 2022.
Karl McCartney MP received a compensation payment of £5,593 when he left Government on 7 September 2022.
Robert Courts MP received a compensation payment of £5,593 when he left Government on 18 September 2022.
Kevin Foster MP received a compensation payment of £7,920 when he left Government on 25 October 2022.
Katherine Fletcher MP received a compensation payment of £5,593 when she left Government on 26 October 2022.
Jesse Norman MP received a compensation payment of £7,920 when he left Government on 13 November 2023.
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