Ministers’ Severance Pay

David Linden Excerpts

Monday 11th July 2022 Commons Chamber

[Mrs Wheeler]

The hon. Gentleman asks a perfectly reasonable question. It is laid out in statute how the amounts and payments are made, and it is in the annual accounts of the Departments.

[David Linden (Glasgow East) (SNP)]

A supermarket worker from Shettleston would not get thousands of pounds in a severance payment. Why should Rishi Sunak, the richest man in Parliament, get a severance payment?

[Mr Deputy Speaker (Mr Nigel Evans)]

Order. Do not name Members by their names, please. You could say former Chancellor of the Exchequer—

[David Linden]

Prime Ministerial hopeful, surely.

[Mr Deputy Speaker]

Order. You stand corrected.