Department for Science, Innovation and Technology: Performance Appraisal
(asked on 16th December 2025) - View Source
Question to the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology:
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, how many and what proportion of staff in each grade were rated in the top performance category in the last year.
This question was answered on 22nd December 2025
- The table below sets out, by grade, the number of staff in DSIT recorded as having been assessed as ‘Exceeding’ – the highest performance rating for SCS and DSIT delegated grade staff – at the end of the most recent full reporting year (31 March 2025). It also lists what percentage this represents of the total number of staff at each grade.
- This data relates to DSIT staff excluding Government Digital Service as they did not formally transfer into the Department until June 2025.
Grade | Exceeding | Grand Total | Exceeding % of Grade |
AO | <=30 | <=30 | - |
EO | <=30 | 78 | - |
HEO | 54 | 318 | 17% |
SEO | 85 | 406 | 21% |
G6 | 47 | 177 | 27% |
G7 | 156 | 610 | 26% |
FASTSTREAM | <=30 | <=30 | <=30 |
SCS | <=30 | 162 | - |
DSIT Total | 384 | 1772 | 22% |
*Numbers of 30 or fewer employees have been redacted.