Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 22 April 2025 to Question HL6565 on Senior Civil Servants and Special Advisers: Pay, what is the (a) salary level and (b) grade of seniority at which there is a policy of public disclosure on an individual public servant’s remuneration in response to a Freedom of Information Act requests.

Departments publish salary information for all their Senior Civil Service (SCS) roles in quarterly organograms on data.gov.uk and for all SCS operating at Board level in their Annual Accounts. The Cabinet Office will publish a new 2025 'high earner' list for senior public officials, linked to the Treasury's senior pay control threshold (published in guidance here), in due course.

The Cabinet Office routinely publishes the salaries of those special advisers earning equivalent to senior civil servants in the Annual Report on Special Advisers which is available on gov.uk.