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<p>Section 4 of the Ministerial and other Pensions and Salaries Act 1991 sets out
Ministers' entitlement to severance payments. Any such payments are published in each
department's audited annual accounts, and these accounts can be found in the Ministry
of Defence Annual Report and Account Index where the severance pay for the right hon.
Member for South Staffordshire will be published in 2020. As detailed in Section 4
of the Ministerial and other Pensions and Salaries Act 1991:</p><p>'the amount of
the payment to which a person who has ceased to hold a relevant office is entitled
under this section is an amount equal to one-quarter of the annual amount of the salary
which was being paid to that person in respect of that office immediately before the
material time.'</p>
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