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<p>The Lord Speaker’s Office is a team which is part of the wider Clerk of the Parliaments’
Office. The cost of the staff within the Lord Speaker’s Office over the last 10 financial
years is as follows:</p><p>2011/12: £145,933</p><p>2012/13: £142,839</p><p>2013/14:
£136,500</p><p>2014/15: £147,770</p><p>2015/16: £166,852</p><p>2016/17: £192,297</p><p>2017/18:
£197,142</p><p>2018/19: £200,654</p><p>2019/20: £182,904</p><p>2020/21: £205,692</p><p>These
figures include on-costs such as pension and National Insurance contributions.</p><p>As
explained in my answer to HL3097, a number of other staff are also co-located with
the Lord Speaker’s Office and provide support to the Lord Speaker alongside other
duties, but their costs are not included within these figures as they are not formally
part of the Lord Speaker’s Office.</p><p>The post of Senior Deputy Speaker was created
in 2016. Since then the Senior Deputy Speaker has been supported by a Private Secretary
(grade HL8). Since 2018, they have also been supported by an Assistant Private Secretary
(grade HL6). Given the limited number of people who have held these posts it would
not be appropriate to give a detailed breakdown of salary figures, but the mid-range
average annual rates for posts across the Administration at the same grade, at current
rates, are as follows:</p><p>Grade HL8 post (including on costs such as pension and
NI contributions): £77,368</p><p>Grade HL6 post (including on costs such as pension
and NI contributions): £46,748</p><p>In 2017 an apprentice also provided support to
the Senior Deputy Speaker. Their costs included time spent supporting the Senior Deputy
Speaker as well as training as part of the apprenticeship programme.</p><p>Additional
support, such as diary management, has also been provided to the Senior Deputy Speaker
by other staff, but this has been done alongside other duties so it is not possible
to split out what proportion of staff time would have been spent supporting the Senior
Deputy Speaker specifically.</p><p>For both the Lord Speaker and Senior Deputy Speaker,
the figures outlined above are for the staffing costs only. There will be other costs
associated with the running of these teams, such as stationery, computers and other
costs, but as these have been accounted for as part of the costs of running the wider
departments within which these teams sit, it is not possible to quantify what proportion
of those costs would have been incurred in specific support of the Lord Speaker or
Senior Deputy Speaker.</p>
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