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Departmental Ministerial Policy Advisers
29 March 2010
Volume 508
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Mr. Philip Hammond

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many full-time equivalent staff of each grade are employed by his Department to assist special advisers. [321135]

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Dan Norris

The Code of Conduct for Special Advisers states that, in order to enable special advisers to work effectively, departments may allocate permanent civil servants to provide support of a non-political nature. In DEFRA, two members of the Secretary of State’s private office assist the special advisers; they are an executive officer and an administrative officer.