Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many political appointees have been made by his Department since July 2024.

We have taken ‘political appointees’ to mean special advisers. A list of special advisers by Department is published each year in the Annual Report on Special Advisers which is laid in Parliament. The Annual Report on Special Advisers 2026 will be published in due course.