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Chris Chope Raises £100K Plus Public-Sector Exit Payments with the Treasury

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Tuesday, 7 September, 2021
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Chris Chope Raises £100K Plus Public-Sector Exit Payments with the Treasury

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Christopher Chope Conservative, Christchurch

Can my right hon. Friend comment on the living standards of those thousands of public sector employees to whom the Government have given exit payments in excess of £100,000 a year and continue so to do?

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Steve Barclay The Chief Secretary to the Treasury

My hon. Friend is right to highlight this issue, which he and I have discussed on many occasions. In July I chaired a roundtable on it across Government, and it is prioritised across Departments. We have a manifesto commitment that the Chancellor and I are committed to delivering on. As my hon. Friend knows, we have a £200 million cost to this that we need to tackle. But at the same time we also need to be true to the manifesto, which was not about tackling those on low incomes who had high pay-offs because of the way their pension benefits were structured and those proprietary claims. We need to differentiate between that and the real ill that he is concerned about, which is those on six-figure salaries who are receiving pay-offs. That is something we are prioritising.

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