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Badenoch pocketed five times more than maternity rate after quitting as minister

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Ms Badenoch took a 7,920 ministerial severance payment in July 2022 when she resigned.

She returned to cabinet just eight weeks later when she was reappointed by Liz Truss .

This amounts to the equivalent of almost 1,000 for each week while she was not in office.

Statutory maternity pay is 184 a week - five times more than statutory rate.

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