Question follow-through · 86709

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Termination of Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many staff left her Department in each of the last five years by grade.

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Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Tabled
30 Oct 2025
Target answer date
3 Nov 2025
Answer
7 Nov 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 30 Oct 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many staff left her Department in each of the last five years by grade.

  2. 3 Nov 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 7 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 through the ‘Civil Service data browser’ as part of Civil Service Statistics 2025, an ...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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