§ Dr. CunninghamTo ask the Prime Minister if she will list in theOfficial Report the grades of, and or salaries paid to political and special advisers to (a) herself, (b) Secretaries of State and (c) Ministers, showing each Department separately.
§ The Prime Minister[holding answer 27 July 1988]: The number of special advisers in each Department is as follows:
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Number Cabinet Office (including No. 10) 9 Foreign and Commonwealth Office 2 Her Majesty's Treasury 3 Department of Health 12 Department of Social Security Department of Education and Science 1
Number Department of Employment 1 Department of Trade and Industry 2 Home Office 2 Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food 1 Department of Energy 1 Department of Transport 1 Scottish Office 1 Department of the Environment 2 Ministry of Defence 1 Lord President of the Council 1 1 The allocation of special advisers is still under consideration. None of these posts is graded.
Two special advisers are unpaid and four are on secondment from the private sector. Apart from the three most senior advisers, the remainder are paid on a common pay spine, as follows:
Point No. Salary No. of advisers 1 13,715 1 2 14,587 11 3 15,047 4 15,591 5 16,479 11+1 6 17,090 7 17,686 8 18,287 9 18,966 10 19,859 11 20,497 12 21,270 13 22,117 14 22,927 1 15 23,736 3 16 24,755 1 17 26,359 1 18 27,702 1 19 29,050 1 20 30,398 11 21 31,741 3 22 33,021 1 23 34,301 24 35,952 2 25 37,159 26 38,366 27 39,312 11 28 40,258 1 1 These four advisers are paid on a pensionable basis, as members of the principal Civil Service pension scheme and their pay is reduced accordingly. The pay of all other special advisers is non-pensionable.