Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government whether they intend to introduce legislation to end the anomaly whereby many Ministers, particularly in the Lords, are unpaid; and which Ministers are currently unpaid.

The number of salaries available to the Government to pay ministers is set by the Ministerial and Other Salaries Act (MOSA) 1975. The limit on salaries, which applies across both Houses, is 109.

The Government has no current plans to introduce new legislation in this area.

As of 22 July, the unpaid ministers currently serving in the Government are as follows:

• Ministers of State: Ellie Reeves MP (n.b. she is paid by the Labour Party), Lord Timpson, Lord Hanson, Lord Hunt

• Parliamentary Secretaries: Hamish Falconer MP, Mary Creagh MP, Baroness Sherlock

• Lords’ Whips: Lord Leong, Baroness Twycross, Baroness Blake