Northern Ireland Office: Ministerial Policy Advisers
(asked on 24th January 2018) - View Source
Question to the Northern Ireland Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many special advisers were employed in her Department in each year from 1997 to 2018.
Because of the devolution of policing and justice functions on 12 April 2010, and subsequent reconfiguration of the Northern Ireland Office (NIO), the NIO does not hold figures for the periods prior to 2010. Attempting to obtain this information would incur disproportionate cost. The figures below are taken from the NIO annual report and accounts for 2010/11 to 2016/17 and show the number of special advisers employed by the NIO.
Year | No. Special Advisers |
2010-11 | 1 |
2011-12 | 1 |
2012-13 | 1 |
2013-14 | 1 |
2014-15 | 1 |
2015-16 | 1 |
2016-17 | 1 |
2017-18* | 2 |
* As of 25 January 2018