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e-politix.com has published a list of NuLabour Special Advisors (SpAds):

Special advisers: List in full

Full list of government special advisers in post on July 24, 2006:

Prime minister Tony Blair
Jonathan Powell (Chief of staff)
Liz Lloyd (Deputy chief of staff)
Ruth Turner (Director of government relations)
Matthew Taylor (Chief adviser on strategy)

Policy directorate
David Bennett (Head of policy directorate)
Conor Ryan
Paul Corrigan
Geoffrey Norris
Philip Collins
Justin Forsyth
Kieran Brett

Strategic communications and press
David Hill (Director of communications)
David Bradshaw
Hilary Coffman
Matthew Doyle
Chris McShane
Benjamin Wegg Prosser
Huw Evans

Events and visits
Jo Gibbons (Director of events, visits and scheduling)
Katie Kay
Angela Goodchild (part-time)
John Watts
Victoria Gould

Research and information unit
Catherine Rimmer
Katie O'Donovan

Deputy prime minister John Prescott
Joan Hammell (Chief of staff)
Mick Halloran

Minister for the Cabinet Office and social exclusion Hilary Armstrong
Peter Kyle
Anna Turley

Communities and local government secretary Ruth Kelly
Julie Crowley (Media and communication)
David Leam
Rachel O’Brien (Women and equality)

Chief whip (Commons) Jacqui Smith
Sue Jackson
Simon Benson

Chief whip (Lords) Lord Grocott
Margaret Ounsley

Constitutional affairs and lord chancellor Lord Falconer
Garry Hart
Philip Bassett

Culture, media and sport secretary Tessa Jowell
Nick Bent

Defence secretary Des Browne
Matt Cavanagh
Alaina Macdonald

Education secretary Alan Johnson
Chris Norton
Mario Dunn
Clare Montagu

Environment, food and rural affairs secretary David Miliband
Madlin Sadler
Tony Grayling

Foreign secretary Margaret Beckett
Sheila Watson
Ed Mitchell
Malcolm Chalmers

Minister for Europe Geoff Hoon
James Connal

Minister for trade Ian McCartney
Martin O'Donovan (Trade)
Blair McDougall (Communications and human rights)

Health secretary Patricia Hewitt
Liz Kendall
Karen Livingston

Home secretary John Reid
Steve Bates
Justin Russell
Anna MacMillan

Leader of the Commons and Lord Privy Seal Jack Straw
Mark Davies
Declan McHugh

Leader of the Lords and Lord President of the Council Baroness Amos
Joe Dancey
Dorothea Hodge

International development secretary Hilary Benn
Beatrice Stern (Communications)

Northern Ireland and Wales secretary Peter Hain
Claire McCarthy (Northern Ireland)
Philip Taylor (Northern Ireland)
Andrew Bold (Wales)
Matthew Burchell (Wales)

Transport and Scotland secretary Douglas Alexander
Paul Sinclair (Transport)
Iain Gray (Scottish affairs)

Trade and industry secretary Alistair Darling
Andrew Maugham
Sam White
Emily Thomas (unpaid)

Chancellor Gordon Brown
Spencer Livermore
Damien McBride
(Plus Council of Economic Advisers members Dan Corry, Paul Gregg, Shriti Vadera, Michael Jacobs and Stewart Wood who are employed on special adviser terms; and unpaid adviser Sue Nye)

Chief secretary to the Treasury Stephen Timms
Jonathan Ashworth
Jo Dipple

Work and pensions secretary John Hutton
John Williams
John Woodcock

Minister without portfolio and Labour Party chairman Hazel Blears
Paul Richards
Andy Bagnall

UPDATE: the Prime Minister's Written Ministerial Statement listing the SpAds, and also their approximate pay bands

We will try to keep an eye on the activities of these NuLabour political commissars, and their contatcs with commercial lobbyists etc.

We will also watch which lobbying consultancies they join after leaving office.

Questions:

  • Does Lord Adonis, a former SpAd, and now an Education Minister, not have a SpAd ?

  • Does Lord Drayson, a Defence Procurement Minister not have a SpAd ?

  • Does Lord Sainsbury the Science Minister (and a major Labour Party funder) not have a SpAd ?

  • Is Lord Levy, the Labour Party / Tony Blair fundraiser, and Middle East Envoy, not effectively a SpAd ?


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