Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, 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.

The information requested is outlined in the table below:

Please note that the data in this table is from 1 April 2022 to 31 March 2025 and that ‘dismissal performance’ was marked as the reason for dismissal.