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Ministerial and other Salaries Order 2008

The pension arrangements are attached to the salary, so they follow the salary for that year. The problem that the noble Baroness might have identified is that the retrospective element applies to Ministers in office but not to those who have left office. They will be paid according to the salary that they received when they left office. Retrospective pay does not affect pensions one way or the other in the obvious sense that what are calculated are the years against the credited years of service. MPs’ pensions fit within this pattern and are often criticised outside as being more generous than some pension schemes outside, but very few Members of Parliament can forge a career that remotely provides the pensionable years that people in other walks of life can enjoy. On Question, Motion agreed to.