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Parliamentary Private Secretaries and the payroll vote under Boris Johnson

Posted on October 2, 2020 by Andrew Defty

The Government has published the latest list of Parliamentary Private Secretaries (PPS). I have written a number of previous posts about the role and particularly the rise in the number of Parliamentary Private Secretaries in recent years. I won’t repeat … Continue reading →

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An increasingly costly resource: are special advisers value for money?

Posted on April 29, 2020 by Andrew Defty

In recent weeks questions have been raised about the involvement of the Prime Minister’s special adviser, Dominic Cummings, in decision-making in relation to the government’s response to the Coronavirus pandemic. This is not the first time that questions have been … Continue reading →

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