§ Mr. WinnickTo ask the Prime Minister if she will list her advisers, their terms and length of appointment and salaries.
§ The Prime MinisterMy current advisers, who are not career civil servants, are:
- G. D. Bourne
- Sir Percy Cradock
- A. Dunlop
- Professor B. Griffiths
- G. Guise
- H. Harris-Hughes
- Mrs. A. Ponsonby
- I. K. Whitehead
The conditions of service are broadly the same as those for established civil servants. The appointments may be terminated at the end of the current Administration; following a general election; or if the Minister who appointed them moves on. It is not our practice to reveal the salaries of advisers as they are individually negotiated in relation to previous outside earnings and are therefore confidential.
§ Mr. WinnickTo ask the Prime Minister what are her plans regarding appointing a successor to Professor Walters as her economic adviser; and if she will make a statement.
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§ The Prime MinisterI have at present no plans to do so.
§ Mr. DobsonTo ask the Prime Minister how many advisers who were not career civil servants, indicating whether part time or full time, she had in 1979–80; and how many in each year since.
§ The Prime MinisterI have had the following number of advisers in the policy unit since 1979:
Year Full-time Part-time 1979 2 — 1980 2 — 1981 2 — 1982 4 — 1983 11 — 1984 11 — 1985 8 — 1986 7 — 1987 4 — 1988 6 — 1989 6 — In addition Sir Percy Cradock has been my foreign affairs adviser since 1984. Professor Alan Walters was my economic adviser from 1981 until 1983 on a full-time basis and this year on a part-time basis. I have also had a personal assistant full-time from 1979 until 1986 and part-time since then.
§ Mr. DobsonTo ask the Prime Minister if she will list all her current advisers who are not career civil servants, giving their date of appointment and fees.
§ The Prime MinisterMy current advisers in the policy unit are:
Appointed Professor B. Griffiths 1985 G. Guise 1986 G. D. Bourne 1988 A. Dunlop 1988 I. K. Whitehead 1988 H. Harris-Hughes 1989 In addition Sir Percy Cradock has been my foreign affairs adviser since 1984. Mrs. A. Ponsonby has been my personal assistant since February.
It is not the Government's practice to reveal the salaries of advisers as they are individually negotiated in relation to previous outside earnings and are therefore confidential.
§ Mr. DobsonTo ask the Prime Minister what was the cost of the Prime Minister's advisers who were not career civil servants in 1979–80 and each succeeding year.
§ The Prime MinisterThe total expenditure on the salaries of my advisers since 1981 is as follows (the figures for earlier years are no longer available).
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Year £ 1981 35,762.50 1982 75,569.25 1983 1167,126.97 1984 145,022.52 1985 188,654.82 1986 210,746.87 1987 239,459.46 1988 215,379.85 21989 141,142.00 1In 1983 the CPRS was abolished and a few members became ministerial advisers.
2 To date.