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Home Office: Termination of Employment

Asked by Mr Peter BedfordConservativeHome OfficeTabled Answered 17 June 2025UIN 58463

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, 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 Dame Diana Johnson

In 2024-25, 24 Home Office employees were dismissed for poor performance.

Prior to April 2024 dismissals for poor performance were included for data collection purposes in a broader category of efficiency dismissals, so figures for poor performance dismissals are not available prior to that date.

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