Salaries of Members of Her Majesty’s Government – Financial Year 2021-22
1-In May 2010 overall remuneration of Ministers (Ministerial and Parliamentary salaries) was cut by 5% compared to the previous Government and then frozen for the duration of the 2010-2015 Parliament. Ministerial salaries (the part the Government controls) have remained frozen for Commons Ministers, meaning a further reduction in real terms. The MPs’ salary received by Commons Ministers is set independently by the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA).
2. Ministerial salaries for Ministers in the House of Lords also remained frozen until the 2019/20 financial year, when Lords Ministers began to claim their full entitled salary. This change was announced in May 2019 and brought the remuneration of Lords Ministers more closely into line with that of Commons Ministers, whose overall remuneration is subject to increase by virtue of annual changes to MPs’ salaries. Given the difficult financial circumstances many in the community face, Lords Ministerial salaries were frozen in 2020 and remain so.
3. Claimed salaries are the amounts Ministers are actually paid, and remain frozen. Entitled salaries are the amounts Ministers are eligible to receive in legislation, which is linked to the average increase in Senior Civil Servant pay. Because SCS pay has been frozen in 2021/22, Ministerial salary entitlements also remain unchanged since last year.
4. Some ministers do not receive a salary. Unpaid Ministers in the House of Lords are entitled to claim Parliamentary allowances under the prevailing rules of Parliament.
5. This table reflects the salaries paid to different posts as at October 2021 and is subject to change, for example if a particular post was to become a Cabinet role in the future, or was to be held by a Member of a different House.