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Civil Servants: Redundancy

Asked by Charlie DewhirstConservativeCabinet OfficeTabled Answered 19 March 2025UIN 37430

The question

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether he plans to reduce barriers to making civil servants redundant who do not deliver efficiency savings.

Answered by Georgia Gould

The Government remains committed to the 2016 Protocol and the need to avoid compulsory redundancies as far as possible.

Separately to redundancies, the Government has set out plans to introduce mutually agreed exits to allow Civil Service employers to come to a sensible and pragmatic agreement with an employee regarding their future when it is clear that things aren’t working.

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