§ Mr. MeacherTo ask the Prime Minister if he will list the persons employed in an official capacity at No. 10 Downing street; what post each of them holds; and how much each is paid. [132455]
§ The Prime MinisterA list of the main office holders in the Prime Minister's Office is set out in the Civil Service Year Book, which is updated annually. Copies are available in the House Libraries.
Information about an individual's pay is not disclosed under exemption 12 of Part 2 of the Code of Practice on Access to Government Information.
However, details of the pay of special advisers by payband are published on an annual basis. For details of the paybill for special advisers for 2002–03, I refer my right hon. Friend to the answer I gave to the hon. Member for Croydon, Central (Mr. Davies) on 16 July 2003, Official Report, columns 327–30W.