Senior Civil Servants: Resignations
(asked on 19th March 2025) - View Source
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask His Majesty's Government how many members of the Senior Civil Service (SCS) left their roles in the past financial year; of those, how many had formal exit interviews within the Cabinet Office, and what proportion of Cabinet Office SCS leavers this represents; and how many had formal exit interviews, and what proportion of total SCS leavers this figure represents.
The table below sets out the number of Senior Civil Servants (SCS) who left the Cabinet Office and turnover of Senior Civil Servants in the year to the dates shown.
| 31 March 2024 (FY 2023/24) |
SCS Leavers | 91 |
SCS Turnover % | 24% |
Number of completed exit interview / or completed an exit survey | 29* |
Proportion of SCS leavers with completed formal exit interviews | 31.9% |
*a record of the completed interview is not centrally held
**exit survey response only, therefore planned leavers
The SCS Exit survey was relaunched in April 2024 to encourage a better response rate. SCS leavers who resign or where the departure is unplanned - for example, when a member of staff resigns or moves to another government department - are expected to have an exit interview with their line manager or the HR Business Partner.
SCS leavers that are planned - for example, when a member of staff retires, their fixed term contract or loan ends - do not need to take part in an exit interview, although they are able to do so.