The Ministerial and other Salaries Order 1991

Type Statutory-Instrument
Publication 1991-12-19
State In force
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Made: 19th December 1991

Coming into force: 1st January 1992

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 19th day of December 1991 Present, The Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council

Now, therefore, Her Majesty, in pursuance of section 1(4) of the Ministerial and other Salaries Act 1975[^f00001], is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:—

Citation, commencement and revocation

1

Increase of Ministerial salaries

2

For the annual amount, or the maximum or minimum annual amount, of salary specified in Parts I, II, III and IV of Schedule 1 to the Ministerial and other Salaries Act 1975 (“the 1975 Act”) in relation to each of the offices specified in the first column of Schedule 1 to this Order there shall be substituted the amount, or the maximum and minimum amount, of salary specified in relation to that office in the second column of that Schedule.

Increase of salaries of Opposition Leaders and Whips

3

For the annual amount of salary specified in Part I of Schedule 2 to the 1975 Act in relation to each of the positions specified in the first column of Schedule 2 to this Order there shall be substituted the amount specified in relation to that position in the second column of that Schedule.

Increase of the Speaker’s salary

4

For the annual amount specified in section 1(3) of the 1975 Act as the salary of the Speaker of the House of Commons there shall be substituted £41,781.

SCHEDULE 1 — MINISTERIAL SALARIES

PART I

Office Salary
£
Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury 53,007
Chancellor of the Exchequer Secretary of State Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Any of the following offices for so long as the holder is a member of the Cabinet— 50,558
a Lord President of the Council; b Lord Privy Seal; c Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster; d Paymaster General; e Chief Secretary to the Treasury; f Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury; g Minister of State.

PART II

1

Any of the offices listed at (a) to (g) in Part I above for so long as the holder is not a member of the Cabinet

2

Minister in charge of a public department of Her Majesty’s Government in the United Kingdom who is not a member of the Cabinet, and whose office is not specified elsewhere in this Schedule

3

Financial Secretary to the Treasury

PART III

Office Salary
£
Attorney General 42,314
Lord Advocate 50,638
Solicitor General 34,695
Solicitor General for Scotland 44,342

PART IV

Office Salary
£
Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms 44,945
Treasurer of Her Majesty’s Household 28,175
Parliamentary Secretary other than Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury 37,689
Captain of the Queen’s Bodyguard of the Yeomen of the Guard 37,689
Lord in Waiting 33,982
Comptroller of Her Majesty’s Household Vice-Chamberlain of Her Majesty’s Household Junior Lord of the Treasury Assistant Whip, House of Commons 18,130

SCHEDULE 2 — OPPOSITION LEADERS AND WHIPS

Position Salary
£
In the House of Commons—
Leader of the Opposition 36,509
Chief Opposition Whip 28,175
Assistant Opposition Whip 18,130
In the House of Lords—
Leader of the Opposition 37,689
Chief Opposition Whip 33,982

Signed

G. I. de Deney — Clerk of the Privy Council

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order increases salaries payable under the Ministerial and other Salaries Act 1975 to Ministers, to salaried Members of the Opposition, to the Speaker of the House of Commons and to other paid office holders. The amounts specified in this Order are the maxiumum salaries payable. The actual salaries in payment may therefore be below these levels.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1975 c. 27.

[^f00002]: S.I. 1990/2596.

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