The following table sets out the proportion of staff who took early retirement between 1 April 2002 and 31 March 2007, broken down by grade.
A breakdown of cost would be provided by the civil service pension payroll provider (Capita Hartshead) but could be obtained only at a disproportionate cost.
Financial year Leaving reason Government grade Number of staff taking retirement 1 April 2002-31 March 2003 Approved early retirement EO 1 SEO 1 Approved early retirement total 2 Flexible early retirement limited postability SEO 1 Flexible early retirement limited postability total 1 Total 3 1 April 2003-31 March 2004 Approved early retirement AO 2 SCS 1 SEO 1 Approved early retirement total 4 Flexible early retirement limited efficiency G7 2 Flexible early retirement limited efficiency total 2 Flexible early retirement limited postability G6 1 SCS 4 Flexible early retirement limited postability total 5 Flexible early retirement structural grounds SCS 1 Flexible early retirement structural grounds total 1 Total 12 1 April 2004-31 March 2005 Approved early retirement EO 1 SEO 1 Approved early retirement total 2 Compulsory early retirement structural grounds SCS 3 Compulsory early retirement structural grounds total 3 Flexible early retirement limited postability SCS 1 Flexible early retirement limited postability total 1 Flexible early retirement structural grounds G7 1 Flexible early retirement structural grounds total 1 Total 7 1 April 2005-31 March 2006 Flexible early retirement structural grounds G6 1 Flexible early retirement structural grounds total 1 Total 1 1 April 2006-31 March 2007 Approved early retirement AO 1 Unknown grade 5 Approved early retirement total 6 Early retirement compulsory redundancy G6 3 Unknown grade 1 SCS 4 SEO 1 Early retirement compulsory redundancy total 9 Early retirement compulsory structural grounds AO 1 HEO 1 Unknown grade 7 SEO 3 Early retirement compulsory structural grounds total 12 Flexible early retirement structural grounds AO 3 EO 2 G7 1 HEO 8 Unknown grade 7 SEO 2 Flexible early retirement structural grounds total 23 Total 50 Grand total 73
Financial year early retirement period Headcount early retirement total Staff in post total Taken from published stats, headcount, on-strength perm. and temp. snap shot date Proportion (percentage) 1 April 2006-31 March 2007 50 27,720 31 March 2007 Q ONS PSES 0.180 1 April 2005-31 March 2006 1 26,596 31 March 2006 Q ONS PSES 0.003 1 April 2004-31 March 2005 7 14,113 31 March 2005 Q ONS PSES 0.049 1 April 2003-31 March 2004 12 13,250 1 April 2004 Mandate 0.090 1 April 2002-31 March 2003 3 13,000 1 April 2003 Mandate 0.023