Question follow-through · 37430

Civil Servants: Redundancy

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether he plans to reduce barriers to making civil servants redundant who do not deliver efficiency savings.

answeredCabinet Office

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Answering body: Cabinet Office
Tabled: 11 Mar 2025
Target answer date: 13 Mar 2025
Answer: 19 Mar 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

11 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether he plans to reduce barriers to making civil servants redundant who do not deliver efficiency savings.
13 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 Mar 2025
Answer published
The Government remains committed to the 2016 Protocol and the need to avoid compulsory redundancies as far as possible. Separately to redundancies, the Government has set out plans to introduce mutually agreed exits to allow Civil Service employers to com...

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