Department of Health and Social Care: Redundancy Pay
(asked on 17th November 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he received ministerial severance pay when he left this post in September 2022.
This question was answered on 23rd January 2023
The Secretary of State did receive a severance payment when leaving his post previously, as set out in legislation (Section 4 of the Ministerial and Other Pensions and Salaries Act 1991). Details of this payment can be found in the annual report and accounts.
On returning to his post in October 2022, The Secretary of State arranged to repay the full amount to the Department.