Question follow-through · 1215
Special Advisers
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if the Prime Minister will publish the list of special advisers before the summer recess.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Cabinet Office
- Tabled
- 23 Jul 2024
- Target answer date
- 25 Jul 2024
- Answer
- 31 Jul 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
Recorded timeline
23 Jul 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if the Prime Minister will publish the list of special advisers before the summer recess.
25 Jul 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
31 Jul 2024
Answer published
Information on Special Adviser numbers and costs will be published in the Annual Report on Special Advisers as per the requirements of the Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010, as was the case under the previous Administration.
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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