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Departmental Dismissal

Volume 493: debated on Wednesday 3 June 2009

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many members of staff in his Department and its agencies were dismissed (a) for under-performance and (b) in total in each of the last 10 years. (274308)

The Ministry of Justice (MOJ) was formed in 2007. To collate such data for the Ministry's predecessor Departments and their agencies would incur disproportionate costs. Data from this date onwards are provided in the following table.

Dismissals for under-performance

Total dismissals

Number of MOJ employees

2007-08

18

533

78,789

2008-09

27

481

81,402