Nadine Dorries to Return £16,876 in Mistaken Severance Pay

The former Tory MP and Cabinet minister received the severance pay in error due to her age, with Labour proposing reforms to the current system.

Nadine Dorries, former Tory MP and Cabinet minister, has pledged to return £16,876 she mistakenly received as severance pay.
The severance pay, which should not have been given to Dorries due to her age, was for her tenure as culture secretary under Boris Johnson.
Dorries, who turned 65 several months before leaving her job, learned of the error via email and promised to repay the money.
Labour has recently proposed reforms to ministerial severance pay rules, including linking payouts to time spent in office and suspending severance for ministers under investigation.
Nearly £1 million was spent on ministerial severance pay during last year's political turmoil.