Key parliamentary contacts
Below is a list of key government ministers, shadow ministers, parliamentary private secretaries and advisers.
Conservative - Liberal Democrat coalition government
Labour shadow ministerial team
Conservative - Liberal Democrat coalition government
Prime minister - Rt Hon David Cameron MP (Con)
Parliamentary private secretary - Desmond Swayne MP (Con)
Polly McKenzie - senior adviser on CLG issues
Miles Gibson - policy adviser on CLG issues
HM Treasury (HMT)
Chancellor - Rt Hon George Osborne MP (Con)
Special advisers - Rupert Harrison & Eleanor Shawcross
Parliamentary private secretary - Sajid Jarvis (Con)
Chief secretary - Rt Hon Danny Alexander MP (Lib Dem)
(Responsible for public expenditure including spending reviews and strategic planning, and welfare reform)
Special adviser - Will de Peyer & Julia Goldsworthy
Parliamentary private secretary - Gordon Birtwistle MP (Lib Dem)
Financial secretary - Mark Hoban MP (Con)
(Responsibilities include financial services policy)
Parliamentary private secretary - Alok Sharma MP (Con)
Exchequer secretary - David Gauke MP (Con)
(Responsible for strategic oversight of the UK tax system)
Economic secretary - Chloe Smith MP (Con)
(Responsibilities include environmental issues, stamp duty land tax, and assists chief secretary on welfare reform)
Commerical secretary - Lord Sassoon (Con)
(Responsibilities include better regulation, competition policy, financial crime, and assists financial secretary on financial services policy)
Department for Communities and Local Government (CLG)
Communities secretary - Rt Hon Eric Pickles MP (Con)
Special adviser - Sheridan Westlake
Parliamentary private secretary - Stephen Hammond MP (Con)
Minister for housing and local government - Rt Hon Grant Shapps MP (Con)
(Responsible for housing, local government, climate change and sustainable development)
Parliamentary private secretary - Jake Berry MP (Con)
Minister for decentralisation - Rt Hon Greg Clark MP (Con)
(Responsibilities include planning policy)
Parliamentary secretary - Andrew Stunell OBE MP (Lib Dem)
(Responsibilities include housing and regeneration)
Parliamentary secretary - Bob Neill MP (Con)
(Responsibilities include local government and planning)
Parliamentary secretary - Baroness Hanham (Con)
Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS)
Business secretary - Rt Hon Dr Vincent Cable MP (Lib Dem)
Special advisers - Katie Waring & Giles Wilkes
Parliamentary private secretary - Jo Swinson MP (Lib Dem)
Minister of state - Mark Prisk MP (Con)
(Responsible for business and enterprise)
Parliamentary private secretary - Jo Johnson MP (Con)
Parliamentary secretary - Norman Lamb MP (Lib Dem)
(Responsibilties include consumer affairs)
Parliamentary secretary - Lord Green of Hurstpierpoint (Con)
(Responsible for trade and investment)
Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)
Work and pensions secretary - Rt Hon Iain Duncan Smith MP (Con)
Special advisers - Susie Squire & Philippa Stroud
Parliamentary private secretary - Andrew Selous MP (Con)
Minister of state - Rt Hon Chris Grayling MP (Con)
(Reponsible for employment)
Parliamentary private secretary - Esther McVey MP (Con)
Parliamentary secretary - Lord Freud (Con)
(Responsible for welfare reform)
Ministry of Justice (MoJ)
Justice secretary - Rt Hon Kenneth Clarke QC MP (Con)
Special advisers - Davd Hass, Kathryn Laing
Parliamentary private secretary - Ben Wallace MP (Con)
Minister of state - Rt Hon Lord McNally (Lib Dem)
(Responsibilities include data protection and data sharing, legislation and legal reform, land registry, and the Law Commission)
Parliamentary secretary - Jonathan Djanogly MP (Con)
(Responsibilities include legal services, courts service, civil law and justice)
Parliamentary secretary - Lord McNally
Cabinet Office
Minister of State (policy advice) - Rt Hon Oliver Letwin MP (Con)
Special adviser - Martha Varney
Parliamentary private secetary - David Burrowes MP (Con)
Labour shadow ministerial team
Labour party leader - Rt Hon Ed Miliband MP
Parliamentary private secretary - John Denham MP & Jonathan Reynolds MP
Treasury
Shadow chancellor - Rt Hon Ed Balls MP
Parliamentary private secretary - Barbara Keeley MP
Shadow chief secretary - Rachel Reeves MP
Shadow financial services secretary - Chris Leslie MP
Senior researcher - Nick Hope
Other shadow ministers - Owen Smith MP
Cathy Jamieson MP
Lord Eatwell
Rt Hon Lord Davies of Oldham
Rt Hon Lord Davidson of Glen Clova
Communities and Local Government
Shadow communities secretary - Hilary Benn MP
Parliamentary private secretary - Paul Blomfield MP
Shadow housing minister - Jack Dromey MP
Researcher - Luke Murphy
Other ministers - Helen Jones MP
Roberta Blackman_Woods MP
Chris Williamson MP
Lord McKenzie of Luton
Lord Beecham
Business, Innovation and Skills
Shadow business secretary - Chuka Umunna MP
Parliamentay private secretary - Simon Danczuk MP
Other shadow ministers - Iain Wright MP
Shabana Mahmood MP
Gordon Marsden MP
Chi Onwurah MP
Toby Perkins MP
Ian Murray MP
Lord Stevenson of Balmacara
Lord Young of Norwood Green
Work and Pensions
Shadow work and pensions secretary - Rt Hon Liam Bryne MP
Shadow ministers - Stephen Timms MP
Ian Austin MP
Anne McGuire MP
Gregg McClymont MP
Lord McKenzie of Luton
Justice
Shadow justice secretary - Rt Hon Sadiq Khan MP
Parliamentary private secrertary - Alex Cunningham MP
Shadow ministers - Wayne David MP
Andy Slaughter MP
Rob Flello MP
Jenny Chapman MP
Lord Bach
