Ministerial Policy Advisers: Conduct
(asked on 14th October 2019) - View Source
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether any Orders in Council have been made which give authority to special advisers to instruct civil servants.
This question was answered on 23rd October 2019
Her Majesty’s Government can confirm no such orders have been made. In accordance with the Special Adviser Code of Conduct, special advisers must not exercise any power in relation to the management of any part of the Civil Service, except in relation to another special adviser.