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date	16/11/2022
answering body	Scotland Office
answering dept id	2
answering dept short name	Scotland
answering dept sort name	Scotland
hansard heading	Scotland Office: Redundancy Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what the cost to the public purse has been of Ministerial severance pay in his Department in each year since 1 January 2016.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh West
tabling member printed	Christine Jardine
uin	88995
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/11/2022 answer text <p>Under the Ministerial and Other Pensions and Salaries Act 1991, eligible Ministers who leave office are entitled to a one-off payment equivalent to one quarter of their annual salary at the point at which they leave Government. This applies only where a Minister is under 65 and is not appointed to a ministerial office within three weeks of leaving government.</p><p> </p><p>Individuals may waive the payment to which they are entitled. That is a matter for their personal discretion, but this approach has been taken in the past. Details of such payments are published in departmental annual reports and accounts, and ministerial salaries are published on GOV.UK at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ministerial-salary-data" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ministerial-salary-data</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Dumfries and Galloway answering member printed Mr Alister Jack question first answered 21/11/2022 09:29:00 answering member 4619 label Biography information for Mr Alister Jack
tabling member	4634 label Biography information for Christine Jardine

1538839

registered interest
date	02/11/2022
answering body	Scotland Office
answering dept id	2
answering dept short name	Scotland
answering dept sort name	Scotland
hansard heading	Scotland Office: Redundancy Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what total amount of money has been paid out by his Department in severance payments for former (a) Ministers and (b) special advisers since 29 June 2022; how much of that money has subsequently been repaid to his Department as a result of individuals (A) rejecting the payment or (B) returning to new roles; and in how many cases where individuals were in post for (I) 0-3 months, (II) 3-6 months, (III) 6-12 months and (IV) more than 12 months has their full severance payment been retained as of 2 November 2022.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	77351
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/11/2022 answer text <p>The Provision of severance payments for Ministers is set out in legislation. Details of the severance payments made to ministers when leaving office are published in departments’ annual reports and accounts.</p><p> </p><p>Similarly, the provision of severance payments for special advisers is set out in the Model Contract, which is available on gov.uk, including provisions for repayment of severance if reappointed. The cost of severance payments made to special advisers across government is published annually by the Cabinet Office.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Dumfries and Galloway answering member printed Mr Alister Jack question first answered 08/11/2022 14:39:57 answering member 4619 label Biography information for Mr Alister Jack
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

759816

registered interest
date	12/09/2017
answering body	Scotland Office
answering dept id	2
answering dept short name	Scotland
answering dept sort name	Scotland
hansard heading	Scotland Office: Redundancy Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how much has been paid to (a) men and (b) women who left his Department under exit schemes since 31 March 2016.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	10153
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/09/2017 answer text <p>The Scotland Office does not run its own staff exit scheme. Any departures would be under schemes run by the parent employers of staff; who join the office on assignment, loan or secondment from other government bodies, principally the Ministry of Justice and the Scottish Government.</p><p>Due to the small numbers involved, specific details and costs cannot be provided to protect the privacy and identity of individuals concerned.</p> answering member constituency Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale answering member printed David Mundell question first answered 19/09/2017 09:07:30 answering member 1512 label Biography information for David Mundell
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett