Special Advisers: Part-time Employment
The question
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the MHCLG annual report and accounts 2025 to 2026, HC484, 15 July 2026, page 62, and to the Cabinet Office, Special adviser data releases: numbers and costs, July 2026, how many of the special advisers listed as working part time also had a part-time role at the Labour Party according to records held by HM Government.
Answered by Cabinet Office
As per the Code of Conduct for Special Advisers, where a special adviser wishes to undertake work for a political party which does not arise out of government business they may do this either in their own time, outside office hours, or under a separate contract with the Party, working part-time for the Government. They may not use annual or unpaid leave for this purpose. Details of where a special adviser has undertaken work for the Party, while working part-time for the Government, will be published as part of the declaration of interest process.
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