Question follow-through · 58461
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Termination of Employment
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how many permanent civil servants in his Department had their contract of employment terminated as a result of poor performance in the (a) 2022-23, (b) 2023-24 and (c) 2024-2
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- Answering body
- Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
- Tabled
- 9 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 11 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 12 Jun 2025 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
9 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how many permanent civil servants in his Department had their contract of employment terminated as a result of poor performance in the (a) 2022-23, (b) 2023-24 and (c) 2024-2
11 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 Jun 2025
Answer published
In financial years 2022/23 and 2023/24 fewer than five permanent Civil Servants were dismissed due to poor performance, and in 2024/25 there were five dismissals.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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