Kevin Schofield is Politics Editor of HuffPost UK.
ministers who left the government in the past year were entitled to taxpayer-funded payoffs of more than £270,000, HuffPost UK can reveal.
It is not yet known how many accepted the payoffs, but the year before fewer than 10% of departing ministers turned them down.Labour has said it would reform the rules so that ministers leaving government would only receive a quarter of their earnings for the previous 12 months, so that those who had served for less than a year would not receive the full three months payment.
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