Question follow-through · 48182
Special Advisers: Recruitment
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 22 April 2025 to Question 45018 on Special Advisers: Recruitment, whether the Prime Minister has set a maximum cap on the number of special advisers who can be appointed.
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
- 25 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 30 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 12 May 2025 · 17 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
25 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 22 April 2025 to Question 45018 on Special Advisers: Recruitment, whether the Prime Minister has set a maximum cap on the number of special advisers who can be appointed.
30 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 May 2025
Answer published
I refer the Rt Hon Member to PQ 45018. The Prime Minister in his Ministerial Code has set out the approach to appointing special advisers.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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