To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many members of the Senior Civil Service in her Department resigned and received a payment on leaving the Civil Service in (a) 2003, (b) 2004, (c) 2005, (d) 2006 and (e) 2007. (190242)

The number of resignations from the Senior Civil service in the Department for Transport was as follows:

No one who resigned received a payment on leaving the Civil Service.