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Treasury: Public Appointments

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many political appointees have been made by her department since July 2024.

answeredTreasury

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Answering body
Treasury
Tabled
29 Jun 2026
Target answer date
1 Jul 2026
Answer
6 Jul 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 29 Jun 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many political appointees have been made by her department since July 2024.

  2. 1 Jul 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 6 Jul 2026

    Answer published

    We have taken ‘political appointees’ to mean special advisers. A list of special advisers by department is published each year in the Annual Report on Special Advisers which is laid in parliament. The Annual Report on Special Advisers 2026 will be publish...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

Later records

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