Sentences with phrase «number of special advisers»

The prime minister has cut the total number of special advisers across Whitehall from 95 to 83 and the pay bill has also fallen by # 500,000 from # 8.4 million to # 7.9 million a year, according to the government figures.

Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee Bernard Jenkin said the change had echoes of Tony Blair's decision to allow a small number of special advisers — including Alastair Campbell — to give instructions to officials.

This is a sensitive matter: the Tories have attacked Labour over their number of special advisers — about 70.

He said more clarity was needed about the size of the extended ministerial offices, including the number of special advisers, and who will head them.

That «limit» was never specified, though the number of special advisers has fallen from 78 under Labour to 68 today (plus one other part - time).

Cameron responded by pledging to «put a limit on the number of special advisers» in the Conservative manifesto, and briefing that this measure would entail a reduction.

Herbert remarked that although he welcomed the proposal to put the Civil Service on a statutory footing, he called upon the government to go further and put a statutory cap in the Bill on the number of special advisers.