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Statutory Instruments

1991 No. 2886

PARLIAMENT

The Ministerial and other Salaries Order 1991

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

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 1991.

(2) This Order shall come into force on 1st January 1992.

(3) The Ministerial and other Salaries Order 1990(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 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.

G. I. de Deney

Clerk of the Privy Council

Article 2.

SCHEDULE 1MINISTERIAL 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

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

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

28,175 —44,945

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

Article 3.

SCHEDULE 2OPPOSITION 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

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.