Departmental Recruitment
Communities and Local Government
Written answers and statements, 5 November 2009
Andrew Tyrie (Chichester, Conservative)
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government with reference to his Department's advertisement for a job vacancy published in August 2009, for a policy adviser to the Secretary of State on Faith and Community, and pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst (Robert Neill) of 16 July 2009, Official Report, column 655W, on Tony Clements, how many staff in his Department who are not special advisers have the job title (a) policy and (b) departmental adviser.
Barbara Follett (Minister of State (the East of England), Regional Affairs; Stevenage, Labour)
All civil servants in the Department provide policy advice to Ministers as necessary and regardless of job title.
According to the Department's Staff Directory, 87 staff currently have policy adviser within their job title and no staff have departmental adviser within their job title.