Question follow-through · 121756
Alex Chisholm and Lord Case
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, for what reason Simon Case and Alex Chisholm were given differing exit payments.
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- Answering body
- Cabinet Office
- Tabled
- 18 Mar 2026
- Target answer date
- 23 Mar 2026
- Answer
- 16 Apr 2026 · 29 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
18 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, for what reason Simon Case and Alex Chisholm were given differing exit payments.
23 Mar 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 Apr 2026
Answer published
I refer to my answer to 108238, as set out in the Cabinet Office accounts (page 86), the payment for the former Cabinet Secretary, Simon Case, was a severance payment, with the value calculated using the Civil Service Compensation Scheme tariff. In answer...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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