| Heading: |
Special Advisers |
| Question ID: |
1812466 |
| UIN: |
HL8409 |
| House: |
Lords |
| Date tabled: |
2025-06-12 |
| Asking Member ID: |
4567 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Baroness Finn
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Baroness Finn
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Parliamentary Secretary to the Cabinet Office on 14 January (HC22193), whether cross-government special advisers are deemed to be employed by the Cabinet Office or a department; and whether |
| Is named day: |
false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-06-26 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4508 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent
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| Answering Member handle: |
RuthAnderson
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@RuthAnderson
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| Correcting Member ID: |
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| Correcting Member display name: |
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| Answer text: |
All special advisers are employees of their appointing minister's department in line with the terms of the Model Contract for Special Advisers. Special advisers have the same legal rights as other employees regarding the possibility of undertaking industr... |
| Original answer text: |
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| Comparable answer text: |
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| Answering body ID: |
53 |
| Answering body name: |
Cabinet Office |
| Tweeted: |
true |