“The cost of ministers’ special advisers has risen to £8.4m following a rise of more than £1m in the past year.
There are now 103 “spads” employed to give advice over and above the work carried out by civil servants, up from 98 last year, official figures show.
They include a total of 26 working for David Cameron in Downing Street and 20 working for Nick Clegg.”
But it doesn’t seem so much when one adviser is costing EDDC upwards of £10,500 per month to provide relocation expertise (which led to hundreds of thousands of pounds being abortively spent on the Skypark project).
At that cost Ministers could only have afforded 70 special advisers rather than the 103 they actually employed!
East Devon Watch 