Department for Transport: Redundancy
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 22 January 2026 to Question 105752, what estimate her Department has made of the number of job losses expected as a result of workforce reform associated with the corporate initiatives underpinning the projected efficiency savings by 2028–29.
Answered by Simon Lightwood
The Department has set out its forecasted efficiencies in the Departmental Efficiency Plan as well as making a further commitment to reduce our administration budget in line with the government’s overall aim to reduce administration costs by 15% by the end of the decade. This will likely mean that the core department will have to become smaller, more skilled, agile, and productive. This work is in the early stages, however we expect that natural attrition will play a significant part and there are no planned compulsory redundancies.
Furthermore, the Department has not made plans for any compulsory redundancies in the train operating companies (TOCs). The Spending Review settlement included an allowance for a small number of potential voluntary exits in the TOC workforce, and these are still being considered.
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