To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the answer of 29 November 2007, Official Report, column 648W, on departmental pay, how many of those earning over £100,000 were employed (a) as special advisers and (b) in a political role in each year since 1997. (177180)

The Home Office has employed no one as (a) a special adviser or (b) in a political role in the Home Office on a salary in excess of £100,000 since 1997.