Maria Caulfield £8k severance payment a “slap in the face” for taxpayers 

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Responding to reports that Conservative MP Maria Caulfield received a severance payment of £7,900 after leaving as minister despite being reappointed seven weeks later, Liberal Democrat Chief Whip Wendy Chamberlain MP said:

“This is a slap in the face for taxpayers who have had to pick up the tab for an endless revolving door of Conservative ministers. It may be within the rules but it’s not within the spirit of them.

“Maria Caulfield should do the decent thing and hand this money back. It just shows that severance payment rules are not fit for purpose and are in need of urgent reform."

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Story first reported in the Health Service Journal here