Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government what were the pay bands for special advisers for each year from 2011 to 2015; and how many Government special advisers were employed in each of those years within each pay band.

The Cabinet Office has published details of special adviser appointments annually on gov.uk since 2010 and these are available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/special-adviser-data-releases-numbers-and-costs on GOV.UK.

Details of special adviser appointments between 2002 and 2010 were periodically released in Written Parliamentary Statements and are available via Hansard but records from this period are not readily available.