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Alun Cairns (centre) resigned from his job as Welsh Secretary final yr
Former Welsh Secretary Alun Cairns acquired a “compensation fee” of £16,876 from the UK authorities final yr.
A spokesman for the Vale of Glamorgan MP stated the fee was “in widespread with the departure of each minister”.
Mr Cairns resigned in November over claims he knew a couple of former aide’s function within the collapse of a rape trial.
He insisted he didn’t know the small print of the case.
An annual accounts report from the UK authorities’s Wales Workplace, revealed final month, says Mr Cairns’ ministerial wage for 2019-20 of £57,379 included the “compensation fee” of £16,876.
The total annual wage for this function, which he acquired in 2018-19, is £67,505. Authorities ministers are entitled to those salaries on prime of their salaries as MPs.
From 1 April 2019, the fundamental annual wage for an MP is £79,468 plus bills.
A spokesman for Mr Cairns stated the compensation fee after his resignation was “in widespread with the departure of each minister from the Welsh or UK authorities and has been in place for many years, from Rhodri Morgan to Peter Hain”.
A UK authorities spokesperson stated: “Severance funds for ministers who go away authorities are made mechanically as set out within the Ministerial and different Pensions and Salaries Act 1991.”
Why did he resign?
In April 2018, Mr Cairns’ former aide, Ross England, made claims a couple of lady’s sexual historical past through the rape trial of his good friend James Hackett, inflicting the case to break down.
Hackett was subsequently convicted of rape at a retrial.
Ross England had been chosen as a candidate for the Welsh Parliament elections in 2021
In December 2018, Mr England was then chosen because the Vale of Glamorgan candidate for the 2021 Welsh Parliament elections.
On the time of his choice, Mr Cairns endorsed Mr England as a “good friend and colleague” with whom “will probably be a pleasure to marketing campaign”.
The previous Welsh Secretary denied figuring out about Mr England’s function within the collapse of the case, however BBC Wales noticed an e-mail despatched to him in August 2018 which talked about the matter.
Mr England was suspended as a candidate and as an worker after particulars of the court docket case emerged, with the celebration saying a full investigation could be performed.
A UK authorities Cupboard Workplace investigation was launched following Mr Cairns’ resignation from Boris Johnson’s cupboard in November.
Mr Cairns was cleared of breaking the ministerial code, however an inquiry discovered it “unlikely” he had not been made conscious of Mr England’s function within the trial’s collapse.
The rape sufferer beforehand instructed BBC Wales that she was “disillusioned however not stunned” by the investigation’s conclusion.