Department for Work and Pensions: Termination of Employment

(asked on 9th June 2025) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many permanent civil servants in his 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
Andrew Western Portrait
Andrew Western
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)
This question was answered on 16th June 2025

We have provided the information requested in the table below

Financial Year

Count of Permanent Civil Servants dismissed for Unsatisfactory Performance /Unsatisfactory Work Performance

2022-23

17

2023-24

22

2024-25

37

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