Ministerial Severance Payments
EDM number 484 in 1994-95, proposed by James Wallace on 25/01/1995.
That this House is dismayed by the news that Lord Wakeham has taken a seat as a non-executive director of Rothschilds Bank with a salary of an estimated ú50,000; notes that Lord Wakeham received ú13,000 in Ministerial severance pay when he stood down from the Cabinet last July; condemns the increasing trend of ex-Conservative Ministers who find employment on the back of experience gained and contacts gleaned during their time in office; and calls on Lord Wakeham to pay back the ú13,000 he received from the taxpayer.
This motion has been signed by a total of 24 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.
MP | Date | Constituency | Party | Type |
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Jim Wallace | 25/01/1995 | Orkney & Shetland | Proposed | |
Nigel Jones | 25/01/1995 | Cheltenham | Signed | |
Paul Tyler | 25/01/1995 | North Cornwall | Signed | |
Lynne Jones | 26/01/1995 | Birmingham, Selly Oak | Signed | |
David Chidgey | 26/01/1995 | Eastleigh | Signed | |
Lawrence Cunliffe | 26/01/1995 | Leigh | Signed | |
Tommy Graham | 26/01/1995 | Renfrew West and Inverclyde | Signed | |
Audrey Wise | 26/01/1995 | Preston | Signed | |
Andrew MacKinlay | 30/01/1995 | Thurrock | Signed | |
Norman Godman | 30/01/1995 | Greenock and Port Glasgow | Signed | |
Michael Connarty | 31/01/1995 | Falkirk East | Signed | |
Ian Davidson | 31/01/1995 | Glasgow, Govan | Signed | |
Helen Jackson | 01/02/1995 | Sheffield, Hillsborough | Signed | |
Mike Hall | 01/02/1995 | Warrington South | Signed | |
Michael Clapham | 01/02/1995 | Barnsley West & Penistone | Signed | |
Alan Simpson | 02/02/1995 | Nottingham South | Signed | |
Roland Boyes | 02/02/1995 | Houghton and Washington | Signed | |
John Battle | 03/02/1995 | Leeds West | Signed | |
Ken Livingstone | 06/02/1995 | Brent East | Signed | |
Joe Benton | 09/02/1995 | Bootle | Signed | |
Anne Campbell | 10/02/1995 | Cambridge | Signed | |
Martyn Jones | 16/02/1995 | Clwyd South West | Signed | |
Mike Gapes | 21/02/1995 | Ilford South | Signed | |
Derek Enright | Unknown | Withdrawn |
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