Department for Transport: Labour Turnover

(asked on 20th February 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the effect of staff turnover in his Department on the effectiveness of project management.


Answered by
Jesse Norman Portrait
Jesse Norman
This question was answered on 1st March 2019

The staff turnover rate for the Department for Transport (Department, the Driver Vehicle & Licensing Agency, the Driver & Vehicle Services Agency, the Maritime & Coastguard Agency and the Vehicle Certification Agency) for the period 1 February 2018 to 31 January 2019 is 9.4%. This is a slight increase in comparison to the previous period in which staff turnover was 8.7%, but is significantly lower than the 15% UK average. The Department continually monitors staff turnover. Within the Department there is a well-established structure for regularly reporting and monitoring resource levels for projects and programmes.

The effectiveness of project management is supported through the Project Delivery Profession, which focuses on building and maintaining project delivery capability.

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