Written Question·Department for Education·UIN 58455

Department for Education: Termination of Employment

Tabled: 9 June 2025
Answered: 27 June 2025

Question

Mr Peter Bedford

ConservativeMid Leicestershire

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.

Answer

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