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Home Office: Termination of Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many permanent civil servants in her Department had their contract of employment terminated as a result of poor performance in the (a) 2022-23, (b) 2023-24 and (c) 2024-25 financial years.

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Answering body: Home Office
Tabled: 9 Jun 2025
Target answer date: 11 Jun 2025
Answer: 17 Jun 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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9 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many permanent civil servants in her Department had their contract of employment terminated as a result of poor performance in the (a) 2022-23, (b) 2023-24 and (c) 2024-25 financial years.
11 Jun 2025
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17 Jun 2025
Answer published
In 2024-25, 24 Home Office employees were dismissed for poor performance.Prior to April 2024 dismissals for poor performance were included for data collection purposes in a broader category of efficiency dismissals, so figures for poor performance dismiss...

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