Department of Climate, Energy and the Environment

A list of all individuals appointed as Special Advisers to any Minister or Minister of State within the Department, from 2011 to date, including:  Name of the adviser  Minister to whom they were assigned  Date of appointment  Date of resignation or cessation (if applicable)  Sanctioned salary rate at time of appointment  Total remuneration actually paid during the period of their service (gross, per year or cumulative) Any records containing biographical information provided to the Department or held by the Department in relation to those advisers, such as:  Curriculum Vitae (CV)  Biographical summaries prepared for internal use, ministerial briefings, or external publication (e.g., press releases or website bios) I believe the relevant records should all be held by HR/Payroll, although the requested information may not exist in a single precompiled record. I therefore request that, where necessary, new record(s) be created, under Section 17(4) of the FOI Act 2014, for the purpose of collating the requested details — particularly in relation to total pay received, biographical information, and the full timeline of appointments and resignations. I would note that, in relation to remuneration, I am looking for both the pay rate and the actual remuneration paid during their tenure. Whilst it may be argued that the actual remuneration is personal information I would note that the OIC has taken the view that "persons in receipt of remuneration sourced from public funds should have a diminished expectation of privacy or confidentiality in relation to that remuneration." Particularly, case 090149 specifically found against the idea that an applicant, the CEO of a public service body, "could have had a reasonable expectation that his level of remuneration would never be disclosed to the public. The Commissioner also considered that release of the salary details at issue would not be a hugely significant invasion of the rights to privacy of the applicant to the extent that disclosure of health or other personal details might be."