§ Mr. Gordon Brownasked the Prime Minister if she will list the annual costs, since 1979, of salaries and expenses paid to and the secretarial back-up services for (a) special advisers to Government Ministers, (b) political advisers to Government Ministers, (c) personal advisers and (d) advisers and staff in the Cabinet Office, Prime Minister's Office and the No. 10 policy unit.
§ The Prime Minister[pursuant to her reply, 22 May 1984, c. 404]: Salary and secretarial costs for special and other advisers are as follows. They exclude political advisers, who are not paid from public funds, and also staff in the Cabinet Office, whose advisory work and costs cannot be separately distinguished. Following the abolition of the CPRS in 1983, the policy unit in the Prime Minister's Office and the efficiency unit were strengthened.
Total figures of expenses paid are not available and partial figures could be extracted only at disproportionate cost.