Ministers and Government office holders who have resigned since the 1992 general election are as listed. Unless otherwise noted, each was paid a severance payment in accordance with the terms of the Ministerial and other Pensions and Salaries Act 1991.
Under the Act, payments are made no less than three weeks after the date of resignation. The actual dates on which payments were made by Departments were not held centrally before February 1994. However, the dates of payments made after February 1994 are as listed.
| Name |
Position |
Date of payment |
| The right hon. the Lord Waddington QC |
Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Lords |
1— |
| The right hon. Alan Clark MP |
Minister of State, Defence |
1— |
| Michael Fallon MP |
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Education and Science |
1— |
| Alan Howarth CBE MP |
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Education and Science |
1— |
| The hon. Colin Moynihan MP |
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Energy |
1— |
| David Trippier MP |
Minister of State, Environment |
1— |
| Baroness Hooper |
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Health |
1— |
| The right hon. Angela Rumbold CBE MP |
Minister of State, Home Office |
1— |
| The right hon. The Lord Belstead |
Minister of State, Northern Ireland |
1— |
| The right hon. Tim Renton MP |
Minister for the Arts |
1— |
| Lord Reay |
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Trade and Industry |
1— |
| Christopher Chope OBE MP |
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Transport |
1— |
| Lord Brabazon of Tara |
Minister of State, Transport |
1— |
| The hon. Francis Maude MP |
Financial Secretary to the Treasury |
1— |
| John Maples MP |
Economic Secretary to the Treasury |
1— |
| Nicholas Bennett MP |
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Welsh Office |
1— |
| Lord Cavendish |
Lord in Waiting |
1— |
| The right hon. David Mellor QC MP |
Secretary of State, National Heritage |
1— |
| Nigel Forman MP |
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Education and Science |
1— |
| The right hon. Norman Lamont MP |
Chancellor of the Exchequer |
1— |
| The right hon. Archibald Hamilton MP |
Minister of State, Defence |
1— |
| Edward Leigh MP |
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Trade and Industry |
1— |
| Robert Jackson MP |
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Office of Public Service and Science |
1— |
| Kenneth Carlisle MP |
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Transport |
1— |
| The right hon. Tristan Garel-Jones MP |
Minister of State, Foreign Office |
1— |
| Michael Mates MP |
Minister of State, Northern Ireland |
1— |
| The right hon. Lord Hesketh |
Chief Whip, House of Lords |
1— |
| Timothy Yeo MP |
Minister of State, Environment |
8 February 1994 |
| The right hon. The Earl of Caithness |
Minister of State, Transport |
11 February 1994 |
| Michael Brown MP |
Assistant Government Whip |
7 June 1994 |
| The right hon. The Lord Wakeham |
Lord Privy Seal |
20 July 1994 |
| The right hon. John MacGregor OBE MP |
Secretary of State, Transport |
14 July 1994 |
| The right hon. Peter Brooke CH MP |
Secretary of State, National Heritage |
23 August 1994 |
| The right hon. John Patten MP |
Secretary of State, Education |
10 August 1994 |
| The right hon. Sir Wyn Roberts MP |
Minister of State, Welsh Office |
15 August 1994 |
| The right hon. Peter Lloyd |
Minister of State, Home |
20 July 1994 |
| Name |
Position |
Date of payment |
| MP |
Office |
|
| The right hon. Nicholas Scott MBE MP |
Minister of State, Social Security |
20 July 1994 |
| The right hon. Sir John Cope MP |
Paymaster General |
12 August 1994 |
| The hon. Sir Mark Lennox-Boyd MP |
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office |
2 September 1994 |
| Robert Key MP |
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Transport |
14 July 1994 |
| Sir Irvine Patnick OBE MP |
Lord Commissioner |
12 August 1994 |
| The Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne |
Deputy Chief Whip, House of Lords |
12 August 1994 |
| The Viscount St Davids |
Lord in Waiting |
12 August 1994 |
| Lord Annaly |
Lord in Waiting |
12 August 1994 |
| Patrick McLoughlin MP |
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Trade and Industry |
23 August 1994 |
| The right hon. Timothy Sainsbury MP |
Minister of State, Trade and Industry |
31 August 1994 |
| Timothy Smith MP |
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Northern Ireland |
29 November 1994 |
| Neil Hamilton MP |
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Trade and Industry |
28 November 1994 |
| The Earl of Arran |
Captain of the Queen's Bodyguards of the Yeoman of the Guard |
14 February 1995 |
| Allan Stewart MP |
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office |
28 February 1995 |
| Charles Wardle MP |
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Trade and Industry |
7 March 1995 |
| Robert Hughes MP |
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Office of Public Service and Science |
31 March 1995 |
| Thomas Dawson QC |
Solicitor General for Scotland |
31 May 1995 |
| The right hon. John Redwood MP |
Secretary of State, Wales |
18 July 1995 |
| The right hon. Jonathan Aitken MP |
Chief Secretary to the Treasury |
28 July 1995 |
| The right hon. David Hunt MBE MP |
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster |
28 July 1995 |
| The right hon. Douglas Hurd CBE MP |
Secretary of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office |
Not eligible (over 65) |
| The right hon. Richard Ryder OBE MP |
Parliamentary Secretary, HM Treasury (Chief Whip) |
28 July 1995 |
| The right hon. Richard Needham MP |
Minister of State, Trade and Industry |
31 July 1995 |
| The right hon. Robert Atkins MP |
Minister of State, Environment |
28 July 1995 |
| The right hon. The Viscount Ullswater |
Minister of State, Environment |
31 July 1995 |
| Sir Hector Monro DL MP |
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office |
Not eligible (over 65) |
| The Viscount Astor |
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, National Heritage |
31 July 1995 |
| David Lightbown MP |
Comptroller of Her Majesty's Household |
28 July 1995 |
| Sydney Chapman MP |
Vice-Chairman of Her Majesty's Household |
28 July 1995 |
| Nicholas Baker MP |
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Home Office |
11 November 1995 |
| The right hon. The Lord Rodger of Earlsferry QC |
Lord Advocate |
30 November 1995 |
| Roderick Richards MP |
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Welsh Office |
28 June 1996 |
| David Heathcoat-Amory MP |
Paymaster General |
19 August 1996 |