Departmental Dismissal

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how many staff have (a) been dismissed and (b) had their contract terminated by his Department in each of the last five years; what the reason for such action was in each case; and what the severance costs in relation to (i) dismissal and (ii) contract termination were in each such year. (290545)

The information is as follows:

	Number of dismissals	Number of termination of contracts	Estimated severance cost¹(£)
2004-05	2	0	7,738.98
2005-06	0	0	—
2006-07	2	0	50,385.59
2007-08	0	0	—
2008-09	0	0	—
¹The exact severance costs are held in Departmental offsite archives. Recalling this information can be provided only at disproportionate cost. Note: The information is obtained from the Department’s central electronic database. Due to the lower number of dismissals, it is inappropriate for detailed reasons to be provided. The Data Protection Act 1998 requires these data to be treated on confidence.

Volume 497: debated on Wednesday 14 October 2009