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Ministers: Pensions

Commons · Question 65095 · Tabled 4 Jul 2025 · Cabinet Office · Official record

Answered 14 Jul 2025

Question

Asked by Blake Stephenson

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make an estimate of the cost to the public purse of Ministerial pensions in the (a) 2023-24 and (b) 2024-25 financial year.

Answer

Answered by Georgia Gould, 14 Jul 2025

MPs and Ministers have membership to the Parliamentary Contributions Pension Fund (PCPF) of which the ministerial share is typically around 8% of the total exchequer contribution. In 2023/24, the Exchequer paid contributions totalling £7,693,885 into the ...