Salaries of members of His Majesty's Government: September 2026
Updated 24 September 2026
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1. Ministers who are members of the House of Commons
| Post | Entitled salary (£) | Claimed salary (£) |
|---|---|---|
| - Prime Minister | £83,837 | £75,440 |
| - Chancellor of the Exchequer - Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - Secretary of State - Lord Chancellor - Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons - Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury and Chief Whip - Minister of State (if a member of the Cabinet) |
£75,170 | £67,505 |
| - Chief Secretary to the Treasury - Financial Secretary to the Treasury - Treasurer of HM Household and Deputy Chief Whip - Minister of State |
£36,045 | £31,680 |
| - Parliamentary Secretary (including any Minister described as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State and the Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury) | £25,882 | £22,375 |
| - Attorney General | £104,599 | £94,450 |
| - Solicitor General | £64,706 | £57,962 |
| - Comptroller of HM Household (Government Whip) - Vice-Chamberlain of HM Household (Government Whip) - Junior Lord of the Treasury (Government Whip) - Assistant Whip |
£21,021 | £17,917 |
2. Ministers who are members of the House of Lords
| Post | Entitled salary (£) | Claimed salary (£) |
| - Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Lords - Secretary of State |
£110,351 | £104,360 |
| - Minister of State | £86,162 | £81,485 |
| - Parliamentary Secretary (including any Minister described as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State) | £75,043 | £70,969 |
| - Advocate General for Scotland | £100,211 | £94,772 |
| - Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms and Lords Chief Whip | £86,162 | £81,485 |
| - Captain of the King’s Bodyguard of the Yeoman of the Guard and Lords Deputy Chief Whip | £75,043 | £70,969 |
| - Lord / Baroness in Waiting (Government Whip) | £69,392 | £65,625 |
3. Notes
1. This table sets out the salaries different ministerial offices are entitled to under the Ministerial and Other Salaries Act (1975), as amended by the Ministerial Salaries (Amendment) Act 2026, and the salaries claimed by the holders of those ministerial offices.
2. That amount listed as an entitled salary is the value of a salary payable to a Minister in law. The amount listed as a claimed salary is the amount a Minister chooses to receive. Ministers voluntarily waive a portion of their entitled salary at the request of the Prime Minister, who has chosen to retain a freeze on ministerial salaries.
3.1 Legal Basis for Ministerial Salaries
3. The entitlement of government Ministers to receive a salary is set out in the Ministerial and other Salaries Act 1975. Schedule 1 of the Act gives details of the salaries paid to different ranks of Minister, with a total of 120 salaries payable.
4. Section 1A of the Act makes provision for the value of such salaries and for ministerial and other salaries to increase annually based on the average increase in Senior Civil Service pay, excluding Permanent Secretaries (should there be an increase).
5. In 2026, the Government reset the statutory salary levels for all Ministers and specified office holders to provide a new clear baseline for future uplifts via the Ministerial and Other Salaries Act 1975 (Amendment) Order 2026. This reset was to address a historic misapplication of the law where the calculation of previous entitled salary increases was incorrect. The Order in Council, which was made at the 3 June 2026 Privy Council meeting, reset the statutory salary levels for all ministers and specified office-holders and amended the formula to exclude the Permanent Secretary pay band from future calculations. The Order in Council changed the salary amounts with effect from the beginning of 1st April 2026. This had no effect on Ministers’ claimed salaries, which remain frozen.
6. For the current financial year, beginning 1 April 2026, the formula applied will be the higher of the percentage calculated using the new formula (i.e. excluding permanent secretaries), and the percentage calculated using the old formula (i.e. including permanent secretaries). This is a transitional measure to ensure no Minister or other office-holder will be disadvantaged by the retrospective effect of the Order. This page will be updated with the resulting entitled salaries once the Permanent Secretary pay bands have been announced later this year. The updated formula will then have effect from 1 April 2027.
7. Due to successive Prime Ministers’ decisions to uphold a salary freeze, claimed ministerial salaries paid to Ministers who are members of the House of Commons have not increased since 2008, and claimed ministerial salaries for Ministers in the House of Lords have not increased since 2020.
8. All Ministers in the House of Commons receive a separate MPs’ salary set by the Independent Parliamentary Salaries Authority (IPSA). For the financial year 2026/27 this is £98,599. Ministers in the House of Lords do not receive a parliamentary salary, and so their ministerial salaries are higher than those of Ministers in the House of Commons to account for this discrepancy. Members of the House of Lords may claim other allowances, as set out below.
9. The Ministerial Salaries (Amendment) Act 2026 has allowed the Government to largely end the practice of unpaid ministers. However, a small number of Ministers do not receive a ministerial salary and are marked as ‘unpaid’ at https://www.gov.uk/government/ministers. ‘Unpaid’ status refers to ministerial salaries only and does not apply to any parliamentary salaries or other allowances received.
3.2 Lords Office Holder Allowance
10. Under the Ministerial and other Pensions and Salaries Act 1991, Lords Ministers, along with certain Opposition and other office-holders, are entitled to receive Lords Office Holder Allowance (LOHA). LOHA is intended to help meet the additional cost of long working hours in London, for example to allow office-holders to remain in London overnight when carrying out their duties as a Lords office-holder, or to enable them to commute more regularly into London from outside London.
11. There are two rates of LOHA. The rate claimed is determined by whether the claimant’s main place of residence is outside, or within, Greater London. A claimant living outside Greater London may claim £36,366 a year (as set out in legislation). For claimants living in Greater London, the policy is that LOHA is claimed at a reduced rate, equivalent to the London Area Living Payment payable to MPs and set annually by the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA). For the financial year 2026-27 this is £5,015 (see here: The Funding Scheme for MPs 19th Edition (PDF, 419KB)).
12. Salaried Lords Ministers receive LOHA and as a consequence, are not entitled to receive Lords Daily Allowance - a flat rate attendance allowance to peers which is administered by the House of Lords (further details here: House of Lords expenses). Unsalaried Ministers in the House of Lords may choose whether to claim LOHA or Lords Daily Allowance.
3.3 Leaving office
13. Under the Ministerial and other Pensions and Salaries Act 1991, a Minister who leaves office is entitled to receive a payment equivalent to a quarter of the salary paid to the post they are leaving. To be eligible for a payment, the Minister must be under the age of 65 and not be reappointed to a ministerial office within three weeks of leaving office.
14. As of 13 October 2025, Ministers who serve for fewer than six months or who leave office following a serious breach of the Ministerial Code will be expected to forgo their severance payment. Ministers who return to office within three months of leaving will be asked to forgo their salary until the end of that three-month period. Ministers who have seriously breached the Business Appointment Rules will be expected to repay any severance payment received. Ministers agree to these conditions via a severance waiver signed on appointment.