The Ministerial and other Salaries Order 1990

Statutory Instruments

1990 No. 2596

PARLIAMENT

The Ministerial and other Salaries Order 1990

Made

19th December 1990

Coming into force

1st January 1991

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 19th day of December 1990

Present,

The Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council

Whereas a draft of this Order has been approved by resolution of each House of Parliament:

Now, therefore, Her Majesty, in pursuance of section 1(4) of the Ministerial and other Salaries Act 1975(1), 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.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Ministerial and other Salaries Order 1990.

(2) This Order shall come into force on 1st January 1991.

(3) The Ministerial and other Salaries Order 1989(2) is hereby revoked.

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 or 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 £39,982.

G. I. de Deney

Clerk of the Privy Council

Article 2

SCHEDULE 1 MINISTERIAL SALARIES

PART I

Office	Salary
	£
Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury	50,724
Chancellor of the Exchequer	48,381
Secretary of State	48,381
Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food	48,381
Any of the following offices for so long as the holder is a member of the Cabinet	48,381
(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

Office	Salary
	£
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	26,962—43,010
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	26,962—43,010
3.  Financial Secretary to the Treasury	26,962—43,010

PART III

Office	Salary
	£
Attorney General	40,492
Lord Advocate	48,457
Solicitor General	33,201
Solicitor General for Scotland	42,433

PART IV

Office	Salary
	£
Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms	43,010
Treasurer of Her Majesty’s Household	26,962
Parliamentary Secretary other than Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury	36,066
Captain of the Queen’s Bodyguard of the Yeomen of the Guard	36,066
Lord in Waiting	32,519
Comptroller of Her Majesty’s Household	17,349
Vice-Chamberlain of Her Majesty’s Household	17,349
Junior Lord of the Treasury	17,349
Assistant Whip, House of Commons	17,349

Article 3

SCHEDULE 2 OPPOSITION LEADERS AND WHIPS

Position	Salary
	£
In the House of Commons—
Leader of the Opposition	34,937
Chief Opposition Whip	26,962
Assistant Opposition Whip	17,349
In the House of Lords—
Leader of the Opposition	36,066
Chief Opposition Whip	32,519

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 maximum salaries payable. The actual salaries in payment may therefore be below these levels.

(1)

1975 c. 27.

(2)

S.I. 1989/2416.