Department for Business and Trade: Career Development
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many and what proportion of staff were promoted (a) in-grade and (b) to a higher grade in the last year broken down by (i) performance marking in the previous year and (ii) grade.
Answered by Kate Dearden
As of 31 March 2025, a total of 576 civil servants, representing approximately 9.7% of those on the payroll, were promoted to higher grades during the previous year. The table below provides a breakdown of these promotions by performance marking (as of 31 March 2024) and grade.
Delegated grades within the Department have two performance ratings - Met and Not Met.
Senior Civil Servants (SCS) have four box ratings ‘Exceeding’, High Performing’ ‘Achieving’ and ‘Partially Met’. Exceeding is the top box rating.
We do not have information about in-grade promotions because lateral moves are not considered promotions and are not tracked currently.
Grade | Met | Not Met | Achieving (for SCS only) | High Performing (for SCS only) | Exceeding (for SCS only) | Number of civil servants without a performance rating recorded in 23/24 | Total promotion (as of 31.03.25) |
AO | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 9 |
EO | 58 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 33 | 92 |
HEO | 127 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 65 | 193 |
SEO | 115 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 42 | 157 |
G7 | 58 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 34 | 92 |
G6 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 25 |
SCS1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 8 |
Total | 372 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 194 | 576 |
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