SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 11Prime Minister, Lord Chancellor and Commons Speaker

Extension of MPs' and Ministerial pension schemes

1

1

Schedule 6 to the Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010 (parliamentary and other pensions) is amended as follows.

2

Paragraph 12(2) to (5) (exclusion from MPs' scheme of persons with service as Lord Chancellor, Prime Minister or Commons Speaker) is repealed.

3

In paragraph 16 (Ministers' etc pension scheme)—

a

in sub-paragraph (2), after paragraph (b) there is inserted—

ba

Lord Chancellor,

bb

Speaker of the House of Commons,

b

sub-paragraph (3) (exclusion from scheme of persons with service as Lord Chancellor, Prime Minister or Commons Speaker) is repealed.

2

In section 4 of the Ministerial and other Pensions and Salaries Act 1991 (grants to persons ceasing to hold ministerial and other offices), in subsection (6)—

a

in paragraph (a), “, other than that of Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury,” is repealed;

b

after paragraph (ba) there is inserted—

bb

the office of Lord Chancellor;

bc

the office of Speaker of the House of Commons;