Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the cost to her Department was of ministerial severance payments in each year from 19 December 2019 to 30 May 2024; which Ministers received a severance payment; and how much each Minister received.
Since 19 December 2019 to 30 May 2024 the cost of ministerial severance payments are as follows:
19 December 2019 – 31 December 2019: nil
1 January 2020 – 31 December 2020: nil
1 January 2021 – 31 December 2021: nil
1 January 2022 – 31 December 2022: £41,575
1 January 2023 – 31 December 2023: £7,920
1 January 2024 – 30 May 2024: nil
The following Ministers received a severance payment of the following value:
Grant Shapps MP received a compensation payment of £16,876 when he left Government on 6 September 2022.
Karl McCartney MP received a compensation payment of £5,593 when he left Government on 7 September 2022.
Robert Courts MP received a compensation payment of £5,593 when he left Government on 18 September 2022.
Kevin Foster MP received a compensation payment of £7,920 when he left Government on 25 October 2022.
Katherine Fletcher MP received a compensation payment of £5,593 when she left Government on 26 October 2022.
Jesse Norman MP received a compensation payment of £7,920 when he left Government on 13 November 2023.