Question follow-through · 54584
Civil Servants: Dismissal
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many permanent civil servants had contracts of employment terminated for poor performance in (a) 2022-23, (b) 2023-24 and (c) 2024-25.
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- Answering body
- Cabinet Office
- Tabled
- 22 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 2 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 3 Jun 2025 · 12 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
22 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many permanent civil servants had contracts of employment terminated for poor performance in (a) 2022-23, (b) 2023-24 and (c) 2024-25.
2 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
3 Jun 2025
Answer published
Departments have delegated responsibility for managing poor performance. Information on how many civil servants in departments have had their contracts of employment terminated for poor performance is therefore not available centrally.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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