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May 24, 2012 · One month on, Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt’s career hangs in the balance, while his special adviser, Adam Smith, announced his resignation on the morning of 25 April, admitting that his...
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Special advisers are a critical part of the team supporting ministers. They add a political dimension to the advice and assistance available to ministers while reinforcing the political impartiality of the permanent Civil Service by distinguishing the source of political advice and support.
Special advisers should be fully integrated into the functioning of government. They are part of the team working closely alongside civil servants to deliver ministers’ priorities. They can help ministers on matters where the work of government and the work of the government party overlap and where it would be inappropriate for permanent civil servants to become involved. They are appointed to serve the Prime Minister and the Government as a whole, not just their appointing minister.
In accordance with section 16 of the Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010, the Cabinet Office publishes an annual report containing the number and costs of special advisers. This information is presented below and can be read alongside the Cabinet Office Annual Report and Accounts 2022-2023, which shall be published in due course.
The Cabinet Office also routinely publishes the names of all special advisers along with information on salaries and pay bands. In accordance with the approach taken by other government departments in balancing transparency with individuals’ right to privacy, the salaries of those special advisers earning equivalent to senior civil servants (£70,000 or more) are given in bands of £5,000.
This list reflects the special advisers in post as of 31 March 2023, working across the whole of government.
1.Information taken from Public Sector Employment Survey March 2023, Office for National Statistics. ↩
2.Based on information taken from Public Sector Employment Survey March 2023, Office for National Statistics. ↩
3.Information taken from Short Money Research Briefing 2023, House of Commons Library ↩
4.Information taken from Short Money Research Briefing 2023, House of Commons Library ↩
5.Donations and loans ↩
Jul 13, 2022 · Another former adviser from Hunt’s culture secretary days, Adam Smith, was advising on policy. Smith is well remembered for quitting his SpAd job in spectacular fashion back in 2012, saying he acted without the authority of his boss by exchanging close messages with News Corporation’s public affairs director, Frédéric Michel, over the ...
Apr 25, 2012 · uk politics. There’s been a resignation this morning, but it is not Jeremy Hunt’s. Instead, it’s his special adviser Adam Smith. Smith’s departure before Hunt’s Commons statement at 12:30 is...
Apr 25, 2012 · Culture secretary Jeremy Hunt's special advisor Adam Smith has resigned, claiming "the content and extent" of his contact with News Corporation during the BSkyB bid "was done without authorisation from the secretary of state" and admitting his activities "at times went too far".
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Oct 17, 2022 · Adam Smith was forced to resign in 2012 as Hunt’s spad over the BskyB bid when the latter served as Culture Secretary after apparently speaking to News Corp without Hunt’s permission.
