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Department for Business and Trade: Termination of Employment

Asked by Mr Peter BedfordConservativeDepartment for Business and TradeTabled Answered 17 June 2025UIN 58453

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many permanent civil servants in his 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.

Answered by Justin Madders

As the start date of this request (6th April 2022) pre-dates the formation of DBT (7th February 2023), information in scope of this request would include data captured by DBT's predecessor, Department for International Trade (DIT).

The number of permanent civil servants who had their contract of employment terminated as a result of poor performance can be found in the table.

Financial Year

Total Number

2022-2023

<5

2023-2024

<5

2024-2025

<5

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