Ministerial Salaries (Amendment) Bill

[As Introduced]

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Bill 401

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Ministerial Salaries (Amendment) Bill

[NOTE: The Bill was presented under S.O. No. 50]

EXPLANATORY NOTES

Explanatory notes to the Bill, prepared by the Cabinet Office, are published separately as Bill 401—EN.

EUROPEAN CONVENTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS

Darren Jones has made the following statement under section 19(1)(a) of the Human Rights Act 1998:

In my view the provisions of the Ministerial Salaries (Amendment) Bill are compatible with the Convention rights.

Ministerial Salaries (Amendment) Bill

[As Introduced]

CONTENTS

  1. 1Ministerial salaries
  2. 2Extent, commencement and short title

[As Introduced]

A

bill

to

Make provision about the maximum number of salaries that may be paid under the Ministerial and other Salaries Act 1975 in respect of certain Ministerial offices.

Be it enacted by the King’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

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Ministerial salaries

In paragraph 2 of Part 5 of Schedule 1 to the Ministerial and other Salaries Act 1975 (maximum number of salaries that may be paid in respect of certain Ministerial offices)—

  1. [page 1: line 5] (a) in paragraph (a) (Secretaries of State), for “21” substitute “22”;

  2. (b) in paragraph (b) (Secretaries of State and Ministers of State), for “50” substitute “54”;

  3. (c) in paragraph (c) (Secretaries of State, Ministers of State and Parliamentary Secretaries), for “83” substitute “94”.

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Extent, commencement and short title

  1. (1) This Act extends to England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

  2. (2) This Act comes into force on the day on which it is passed.

  3. (3) This Act may be cited as the Ministerial Salaries (Amendment) Act 2026.

Ministerial Salaries (Amendment) Bill

[As Introduced]

A

bill

to

Make provision about the maximum number of salaries that may be paid under the Ministerial and other Salaries Act 1975 in respect of certain Ministerial offices.

Presented by Darren Jones
supported by The Prime Minister, The Chancellor of the Exchequer, James Murray, Nick Thomas-Symonds and Chris Ward

Ordered, by The House of Commons, to be Printed, .

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