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Ministers Multi £million Pensions

Friday 23rd July

GOVERNMENT MINISTERS PENSION POTS ROCKET BY MILLIONS

It’s quite unbelievable that Ministers preach pay and pensions restraint while quietly pocketing jaw-dropping pension rises says GMB

 

Using information gathered from ‘Freedom of Information’ (FOI) requests and official publications GMB has compiled a list (see below) of the Tory/Lib Dem government’s ministerial team and the value of their MPs pension hike as a result of becoming a minister.  The value is shown both as the actual pension increase and the cost of providing such increases on the open market.  These increases are on top of the MPs pension they have already accrued before becoming a minister.

 

Brian Strutton. GMB National Secretary said, “It’s quite unbelievable that Ministers preach pay and pensions restraint while quietly pocketing jaw-dropping pension rises.  The stench of hypocrisy is overwhelming.  GMB members on £6 an hour in the public sector are told they face job losses, pay freezes and pension cuts by government ministers who are taking massive hikes to their own pensions.  It’s a real sickener and the Tory and Lib Dem Ministers should hang their heads in shame.  Obviously ‘we’re all in it together’ doesn’t apply to these fattest of fat cats.”

 

 

SALARY LIFT

Additional Pension

ANNUITY PRICE

 

 

Scottish Widows (FSA)

 

 

Based on 1/40ths

Joint Life RPI

Francis Maude

£79,754

£9,969

£330,984

Patrick McLoughlin

£79,754

£9,969

£330,984

Andrew Mitchell

£79,754

£9,969

£330,984

William Hague

£79,754

£9,969

£330,984

Eric Pickles

£79,754

£9,969

£330,984

Liam Fox

£79,754

£9,969

£330,984

Iain Duncan Smith

£79,754

£9,969

£330,984

David Willetts

£79,754

£9,969

£330,984

Andrew Lansley

£79,754

£9,969

£330,984

Philip Hammond

£79,754

£9,969

£330,984

Owen Paterson

£79,754

£9,969

£330,984

Michael Moore

£79,754

£9,969

£330,984

Oliver Letwin

£79,754

£9,969

£330,984

George Osborne

£79,754

£9,969

£330,984

Chris Huhne

£79,754

£9,969

£330,984

Michael Gove

£79,754

£9,969

£330,984

Jeremy Hunt

£79,754

£9,969

£330,984

Danny Alexander

£79,754

£9,969

£330,984

Cheryl Gillan

£79,754

£9,969

£319,527

Theresa May

£79,754

£9,969

£319,527

Caroline Spelman

£79,754

£9,969

£319,527

Dominic Grieve

£69,491

£9,969

£288,392

Vince Cable

£79,754

£9,969

£258,003

George Young

£79,754

£8,686

£247,991

Simon Burns

£41,370

£5,171

£171,688

James Paice

£41,370

£5,171

£171,688

David Lidington

£41,370

£5,171

£171,688

Nick Harvey

£41,370

£5,171

£171,688

Alan Duncan

£41,370

£5,171

£171,688

Charles Hendry

£41,370

£5,171

£171,688

Damian Green

£41,370

£5,171

£171,688

John Hayes

£41,370

£5,171

£171,688

Steve Webb

£41,370

£5,171

£171,688

Paul Burstow

£41,370

£5,171

£171,688

Nick Gibb

£41,370

£5,171

£171,688

Mark Prisk

£41,370

£5,171

£171,688

Chris Grayling

£41,370

£5,171

£171,688

Gregory Barker

£41,370

£5,171

£171,688

Hugo Swire

£41,370

£5,171

£171,688

Nick Herbert

£41,370

£5,171

£171,688

Greg Clark

£41,370

£5,171

£171,688

Grant Shapps

£41,370

£5,171

£171,688

Jeremy Browne

£41,370

£5,171

£171,688

Sarah Teather

£41,370

£5,171

£165,745

Theresa Villiers

£41,370

£5,171

£165,745

 

 

 

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Contact: Brian Strutton. GMB National Secretary on 07860 606137 or Naomi Cooke, GMB Pensions Officer on 07739 919633 or GMB Press Office: Rose Conroy on 07974 251823.

Notes to Editors: Ministerial salaries are taken from the official list, pensionable service is taken from the year of being elected an MP, assumed to be in the existing MPs 1/40ths pension scheme, cost/value of the pension increases calculated using published Scottish Widows annuity rates for an equivalent pension.

 

 

 

 

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