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Unlike special advisers who became senior officials under the last government,
there has been no appointment to the Home Office since 2010 of a senior civil
servant who was previously a political appointee within the Department.

The Department does not routinely hold the information asked in (b) therefore
in order to ascertain how many senior civil servants appointed since 2010 were
previously employed by a political party would incur disproportionate cost.<\/p>

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