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Statutory Instruments

1994 No. 3206

PARLIAMENT

The Ministerial and other Salaries Order 1994

Made

14th December 1994

Coming into force

1st January 1995

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 14th day of December 1994

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 1994.

(2) This Order shall come into force on 1st January 1995.

(3) The Ministerial and other Salaries Order 1993(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 £44,943.

R. P. Bulling

Deputy Clerk of the Privy Council

Article 2

SCHEDULE 1MINISTERIAL SALARIES

PART I

OfficeSalary £
Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury57,018

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—

(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.

55,329

PART II

OfficeSalary £

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 }

Maximum 48,835

Minimum 30,307

PART III

OfficeSalary £
Attorney General45,516
Lord Advocate55,409
Solicitor General37,321
Solicitor General for Scotland47,697

PART IV

OfficeSalary £
Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms48,835
Parliamentary Secretary other than Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury41,065
Captain of the Queen’s Bodyguard of the Yeomen of the Guard41,065
Treasurer of Her Majesty’s Household30,307
Lord in Waiting37,111

Comptroller of Her Majesty’s Household }

Vice-Chamberlain of Her Majesty’s Household }

Junior Lord of the Treasury }

Assistant Whip, House of Commons }

19,502

Article 3

SCHEDULE 2OPPOSITION LEADERS AND WHIPS

PositionSalary £
In the House of Commons—
Leader of the Opposition39,272
Chief Opposition Whip30,307
Assistant Opposition Whip19,502
In the House of Lords—
Leader of the Opposition41,065
Chief Opposition Whip37,111

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 (other than Part II of Schedule 1) are the maximum salaries payable. The actual salaries in payment may therefore be below these levels.