Question follow-through · 24650

Special Advisers: Pay

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether his policy on special adviser pay has changed since 6 October 2024.

answeredCabinet Office

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Answering body
Cabinet Office
Tabled
17 Jan 2025
Target answer date
21 Jan 2025
Answer
27 Jan 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling

Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.

Recorded timeline

  1. 17 Jan 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether his policy on special adviser pay has changed since 6 October 2024.

  2. 21 Jan 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 27 Jan 2025

    Answer published

    There have been small changes to the special advisor pay policy since 6 October 2024. Details of special advisers Costs and Salaries will be published in the Annual Report on Special Advisers later in the year.

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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