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Department for Education: Termination of Employment

Asked by Mr Peter BedfordConservativeDepartment for EducationTabled Answered 27 June 2025UIN 58455

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many permanent civil servants in her 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 Janet Daby

The department does not hold a central dataset of the reasons for a dismissal in respect of those years.

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