Question follow-through · 96803
Department for Education: Performance Appraisal
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of staff in her Department in each grade were rated in the top performance category in the last year.
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 3 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 8 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 12 Dec 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
3 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of staff in her Department in each grade were rated in the top performance category in the last year.
8 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 Dec 2025
Answer published
The department does not currently operate a performance management system that includes ratings. However, it is in the process of introducing ratings for its Senior Civil Servants, with ratings for the 2025/26 performance year due to be determined in spri...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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