Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the total cost to the public purse was for special advisers, including the cost of redundancies, across all Government departments in each of the last five years.

A list of special advisers and costs is published annually on gov.uk and deposited in the libraries of both Houses. The information can be accessed here https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/special-adviser-data-releases-numbers-and-costs