Government Departments: Ministerial Policy Advisers

(asked on 26th January 2015) - View Source

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the cost has been to the public purse of independent policy advisers across all government departments since May 2010.


Answered by
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Lord Maude of Horsham
This question was answered on 2nd February 2015

Independent policy advisers is not a category of staff or profession that is recognised in the Civil Service. Departments may commission policy advice externally including through the Contestable Policy programme. Comprehensive details are not held centrally.

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