Ministerial Salaries (Amendment) Bill

Key Points

• - In the Commons, the three caps are raised: Secretaries of State from 21 to 22; Secretaries of State and Ministers of State from 50 to 54; and Secretaries of State, Ministers of State and Parliamentary Secretaries from 83 to 94.
• - The changes apply UK-wide (England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland) and take effect on enactment.
• - The Lords Explanatory Notes add that total paid ministerial salaries would rise from 109 to 120 and that the minimum number of Lords ministers eligible for salaries would increase to 25; the overall framework remains, but with these expanded quotas.
• - Estimated extra annual cost to the public purse is about £600,000–£850,000.
• - Progress: the bill passed the Commons (3rd reading) and moved to the Lords, where the Committee of the Whole House later negatived a committee stage on 14 April; it then proceeded to Report and 3rd reading in the Lords on 14 April, with Royal Assent not yet announced.
• whoIsAffectedFromBillImpetusToNaiveReadingsAndCostsOnlyToProvideAListOfGroupsAffectedNotTheSpecificPeopleIncludedInBillsButInThisCaseTheGroupsAffectedAreButNotLimitedToTheFollowingGroupsOf.

Progress

The bill started in the Commons under Darren Jones and cleared the Commons stages, then moved to the Lords. In the Lords, a committee negated the measure on 14 April, but it continued to Report and 3rd reading on the same day. It has not yet received Royal Assent.