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.
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 |