Ministry of Defence: Termination of Employment

(asked on 31st October 2025) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many staff left his Department in each of the last five years by grade.


Answered by
Louise Sandher-Jones Portrait
Louise Sandher-Jones
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence)
This question was answered on 10th November 2025

The table below shows the outflow of Ministry of Defence Civil Servants by grade within the last five years.

Grade

2020-21

2021-22

2022-23

2023-24

2024-25

Senior Civil Service

46

73

54

63

72

Grade 6

73

140

132

137

138

Grade 7

259

411

358

551

429

SEO

510

922

947

993

876

HEO

800

1,200

1,207

1,113

1,044

EO

724

1,088

969

873

745

AO

949

1,537

1,453

1,556

1,347

AA

309

412

446

455

478

Other Grades

88

120

457

225

40

Total

3,758

5,903

6,023

5,966

5,169

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