Department for Transport: Termination of Employment
(asked on 29th October 2025) - View Source
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many staff left her Department in each of the last five years, broken down by grade.
This question was answered on 7th November 2025
The table below presents the headcount of permanent civil servants who have left from the central Department for Transport over the past 5 years, categorised by grade. To ensure the inclusion of the most recent data, the data is provided on a rolling year basis from October to September.
Grade | 2020-21 | 2021-22 | 2022-23 | 2023-24 | 2024-25 |
AA | 3 |
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AO | 12 | 14 | 16 | 18 | 114 |
EO | 50 | 75 | 63 | 45 | 75 |
HEO | 145 | 159 | 184 | 174 | 134 |
SEO | 116 | 123 | 111 | 119 | 177 |
Grade 7 | 108 | 135 | 137 | 149 | 160 |
Grade 6 | 42 | 48 | 42 | 55 | 74 |
SCS1 | 15 | 20 | 20 | 15 | 28 |
SCS2 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 8 |
SCS3 | 2 |
| 2 | 1 |
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Perm Sec |
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| 1 |
| 1 |