Question follow-through · 23027

Home Office: Redundancy Pay

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the former Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Safeguarding and Violence Against Women and Girls, the Hon Member for Bolsover, received a ministerial severance payment upon leaving Government.

answeredCabinet Office

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Answering body
Cabinet Office
Tabled
28 Aug 2026
Target answer date
2 Sept 2026
Answer
25 Sept 2026 · 28 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 28 Aug 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the former Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Safeguarding and Violence Against Women and Girls, the Hon Member for Bolsover, received a ministerial severance payment upon leaving Government.

  2. 2 Sept 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 25 Sept 2026

    Answer published

    Details of ministerial severance payments are published in the relevant department’s annual report and accounts. As per 1.14 of the Ministerial Code, Ministers are expected to waive, on appointment, entitlement to a ministerial severance payment upon leav...

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