HC Deb 09 December 1998 vol 322 c206W
Mr. Robert Jackson

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list the special advisers in his Department and the issues on which they specialise; and to what level they have been security cleared. [62838]

Mr. Milburn

There are two special advisers in the Department, Mr. Simon Stevens and Mr. Joe McCrea. Special advisers advise on the full range of issues for which Ministers are responsible and are subject to the usual security clearance arrangements.