Have Labour & Tories put dozens of party workers on public payroll?
Labour leader Ed Miliband may have been making political hay over the PM's "vanity" photographer.
And it was today announced that the snapper and a "videographer" would no longer be on the public payroll. It turns out that they were paid between ã36,371 and ã43,716, a tidy sum.
But it seems there are still a large number of people previously employed by the Tory party, now working as civil servants (excluding special advisers to ministers).
It appears that the Cabinet Secretary suggests there such 28 people - although his response to a letter from a Labour MP about the issue is a little confusing.
However, Labour could face claims of hypocrisy because it seems they also had people on payroll. Again the suggestion seems to be 24 as of 1 May this year - although again the letter is a little confusins.
The details are contained in a letter from Gus O'Donnell to Labour MP Michael Dugher who asked for information about the vanity photographer.
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There is no hypocrisy here - of course the previous govt employed people on short term contracts, the issue here is the number of people who were moved directly from the cchq payroll to the taxpayer and the kind of roles they were performing. Camerons u turn today is an admission the decision (at least on parsons and wood house) was wrong.
To err is human. To publicly admit it is unparalleled in 14 years of UK politics.
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