Department for Transport: Performance Appraisal
(asked on 29th October 2025) - View Source
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many performance reviews were undertaken for staff in (a) her Department and (b) its agencies in each of the last five years; in how many cases performance was rated as unsatisfactory or below; how many staff left as a result of such a rating; and what proportion of full-time equivalent staff this represented.
We have provided a response based on the number of submitted reviews over the entirety of a complete performance year (April 1 to March 31), for performance years 2024/25, 2023/24, 2022/23, 2021/22, 2020/21. This has been split, where possible, between Department for Transport (DfT) core and its agencies (Active Travel England (ATE), Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA), Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA), Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA), Vehicle Certification Agency (VCA)). In addition, data has been split by Senior Civil Servants (SCS) and delegated grades (Grade 6 and below), as performance is managed differently.
The information provided does not include employees that have been marked as out of scope for review, and where figures within each business unit are below 5, these have been withheld for identification protection under S40(2) of the FOIA.
TOTAL REVIEWS CONDUCTED
Year | DfTc | DVLA | DVSA | MCA | VCA | ATE | SCS |
2024/25 | 10760 | 70181 | 14372 | 4005 | 666 | 209 | 281 |
2023/24 | 6815 | 69824 | 12669 | 4228 | 585 | N/A | 284 |
2022/23 | 10364 | 70408 | 17430 | 4169 | 634 | N/A | 271 |
2021/22 | 10915 | 62607 | N/A | 4261 | 737 | N/A | 243 |
2020/21 | 9587 | 65827 | N/A | 4409 | 515 | N/A | 232 |
NUMBER OF UNSATISFACTORY PERFORMANCE RATINGS
Year | DfTc | DVLA | DVSA | MCA | VCA | ATE | SCS |
2024/25 | 92 | 605 | 72 | 30 | <5 | <5 | 13 |
2023/24 | 55 | 462 | 67 | 43 | <5 | N/A | 9 |
2022/23 | 106 | 379 | 115 | 50 | <5 | N/A | 11 |
2021/22 | 118 | 148 | N/A | 51 | <5 | N/A | 11 |
2020/21 | 86 | 148 | N/A | 69 | 7 | N/A | 12 |
NUMBER OF DIMISSALS AS A RESULT OF PERFORMANCE AND FTE PROPORTION
Year | DfTc | DVLA | DVSA | MCA | VCA | ATE | SCS | TOTAL (FTE proportion for whole group) |
2024/25 | <5 | <5 | <5 | <5 | <5 | <5 | <5 | 2 (0.01%) |
2023/24 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 0 |
2022/23 | <5 | <5 | <5 | <5 | <5 | <5 | <5 | 7 (0.05%) |
2021/22 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 0 |
2020/21 | <5 | <5 | <5 | <5 | <5 | N/A | <5 | 2 (0.01%) |