Question follow-through · 85874
Department for Education: Termination of Employment
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many staff left her Department in each of the last five years by grade.
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 28 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 30 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 11 Nov 2025 · 14 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Economy and business
- Department for Education: Public Bodies · 10 Nov 2025
- Department for Education: Termination of Employment · 12 Nov 2025
- Department for Education: Conditions of Employment · 12 Nov 2025
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- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 5 · 1 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
28 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many staff left her Department in each of the last five years by grade.
30 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
11 Nov 2025
Answer published
Information on the number of civil servants leaving each government department and organisation by responsibility level for the years 2021 to 2025 is published annually as part of Civil Service Statistics, an accredited official statistics publication.Inf...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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