abstract:Her Majesty's Paymaster General or HM Paymaster General is a ministerial position in the United Kingdom. The Paymaster General was in charge of the Office of HM Paymaster General (OPG), which held accounts at the Bank of England on behalf of Government departments and selected other public bodies.
The prime minister has insisted former paymastergeneral Geoffrey Robinson is "not a pariah" and insisted no action was being taken to block his memoirs.