Department for Business and Trade: Termination of Employment
(asked on 31st October 2025) - View Source
Question to the Department for Business and Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many staff left his Department in each of the last five years by grade.
Information on the number of civil servants leaving each government department and organisation by responsibility level for the years 2021 to 2025 is published annually through the ‘Civil Service data browser’ as part of Civil Service Statistics 2025, an accredited official statistics publication. Information can be accessed through the Civil Service data browser for 2021 through 2025 at the following web address:
https://civil-service-statistics.jdac.service.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/
Here is the break down by grade in 2024/2025 and 2023/2024.
Leavers by grade | 2024/2025 | 2023/2024* |
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AO/EO | 123 | 118 |
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HEO | 139 | 115 |
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SEO | 155 | 132 |
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G7 | 149 | 129 |
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G6 | 46 | 33 |
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SCS 1/2/3/4 | 33 | 16 |
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Total | 645 | 543 |
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*Civil servants who left DBT payroll between 1 August 2023 and 31 March 2024. | |||||||
The DBT was created in 2023. Complete staff record for DBT was only available since 1 August 2023. Leavers data prior to 1 August 2023 was provided by DBT’s predecessors, the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and the Department for International Trade. This data is readily available on Gov.uk : https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/civil-service-statistics