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Asked by Kevin HollinrakeConservativeTreasuryTabled Answered 5 November 2025UIN 85825

The question

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the hon Member for Hampstead and Highgate received a Ministerial severance payment.

Answered by Dan Tomlinson

Ministerial severance is payable under the Ministerial and other Pensions and Salaries Act 1991 when a Minister leaves office and meets the following statutory conditions:

Ministers who have not attained the age of 65 and are not appointed to a relevant ministerial or other paid office within 3 weeks of the last day of service, are eligible for a severance payment of one quarter of the annual ministerial salary being paid.

Details of HM Treasury ministerial severance payments, including recipients and amounts, are published in the annual report and accounts.

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