HC Deb 27 March 1995 vol 257 cc415-6W
Mr. Campbell-Savours

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what facilities in terms of(a) access to telephones, (b) use of equipment, (c) use of offices, (d) access to ministerial meetings, (e) sight of correspondence, (f) attendance at interdepartmental meetings and (g) access to civil servants are available to specialist advisers in her Department. [15624]

Mr. Sackville

Special advisers are members of the civil service, have the same conditions of service as civil servants and are subject to the same rules of conduct as other civil servants, with certain limited exceptions. They have facilities appropriate to their duties.

Mr. Campbell-Savours

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will list the names of those persons appointed as political advisers to her Department since May 1992. [15625]

Mr. Sackville

The Department has not appointed a special adviser since May 1992.