Question follow-through · 73833
Special Advisers: Elections
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether he has issued guidance to special advisers on undertaking (a) national and (b) local political activities during working hours when accompanying Ministers in a local election purdah period.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Cabinet Office
- Tabled
- 1 Sept 2025
- Target answer date
- 3 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 15 Oct 2025 · 44 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
1 Sept 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether he has issued guidance to special advisers on undertaking (a) national and (b) local political activities during working hours when accompanying Ministers in a local election purdah period.
3 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
15 Oct 2025
Answer published
The rules for national and local political activities are set out in the Code of Conduct for Special Advisers.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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