Department for Culture, Media and Sport: Termination of Employment
(asked on 9th June 2025) - View Source
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many permanent civil servants in her Department had their contract of employment terminated as a result of poor performance in the (a) 2022-23, (b) 2023-24 and (c) 2024-25 financial years.
Answered by
Stephanie Peacock
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Culture, Media and Sport)
From 1st April 2022 - 31st March 2025 there were seven dismissals. Of this total there were less than five poor performance dismissals that occurred between April 2023- March 2024.
We are unable to provide the precise number of poor performance dismissals because this would constitute a breach of the Data Protection Act, this is because the information relates to someone other than the data subjects and the risk of individuals becoming identifiable where case numbers are 5 or less.