Special Advisers: Pay
The question
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the Special Adviser Remuneration Committee has met to (a) set policy, (a) amend the framework and (c) make individual decisions on special adviser pay since the general election.
Answered by Georgia Gould
Special advisers’ salaries are determined by the Special Adviser People Board, in line with the special adviser pay framework. The People Board is chaired by a senior official acting under delegated authority from the Prime Minister. The majority of Board members are senior officials. Members of the Prime Minister’s special adviser leadership team also attend, as has been the case under successive administrations.
As special advisers cannot authorise expenditure of public funds, final decisions of special adviser salaries are made by civil servants.
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.
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