Committee on Standards in Public Life: Defining the boundaries within the Executive: Ministers, Sp…
R9-30
Published April 2003
Response position and delivery status are recorded separately. Acceptance does not establish implementation.
Recommendation (the Committee's words)
(a) The Ministerial Code should be amended to make clear that the Prime Minister is personally accountable to Parliament for the management and discipline of his or her special advisers.
(b) The most senior special adviser in the Prime Minister’s Office should be responsible to the Prime Minister for ensuring that the day-to-day activities of special advisers appointed by the Prime Minister comply with the Code of Conduct for Special Advisers. (page 63)
(b) The most senior special adviser in the Prime Minister’s Office should be responsible to the Prime Minister for ensuring that the day-to-day activities of special advisers appointed by the Prime Minister comply with the Code of Conduct for Special Advisers. (page 63)
From: Committee on Standards in Public Life, Defining the boundaries within the Executive: Ministers, Special Advisers and the permanent Civil Service, April 2003