To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change how many performance reviews were undertaken in respect of staff of his Department and its predecessors in each of the last five years; in how many cases performance was rated as unsatisfactory or below; how many staff left as a direct result of such a rating; and what percentage of full-time equivalent staff this represented. (313835)

The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) was created in October 2008 bringing together staff from Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR) and Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA). Each Department had a separate legacy appraisal system. The number of performance reviews carried out for staff in DECC under those legacy arrangements since that date are shown in the following table.

Data relating to the previous years, i.e. 2004-08, are not available as the cost to identify the staff involved would be disproportionately expensive.

The number of staff identified as having a performance level that is unsatisfactory or below is not being disclosed so as to maintain individual confidentiality.