To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many employees in (a) his Department and (b) each of its agencies are in transition prior to being managed out; how long on average the transition window between notification and exit has been in (i) his Department and its predecessors and (ii) each of its agencies in each of the last five years; what estimate he has made of the salary costs of staff in transition in each such year; and what proportion of employees in transition were classed as being so for more than six months in each year. (313247)

The phrases ‘in transition’ and ‘managed out’ are not used in the civil service. However, we have taken the former to mean staff officially declared to be surplus, and the latter to mean surplus staff leaving the organisation, either through redeployment or compulsory redundancy.

In Communities and Local Government surplus staff are not necessarily managed out. The Department’s redeployment pool, known as the Career Transition Centre, includes staff returning from loans, secondments, and career breaks, as well as those currently without permanent posts. Most of these staff are redeployed within the civil service.

The following table shows the length of the transition window, with associated salary costs, and the proportion of staff who were surplus for more than six months. The cost of surplus staff has only been centrally accounted for in Communities and Local Government since April 2008 so no data on this are available prior to this date. Similarly, the Department did not track staff redeployment before April 2008.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what estimate he has made of the proportion of staff of (a) his Department and its predecessors and (b) its agencies managed out in the last five years who remain working in the public sector. (313841)

No data are collected on the future employment of staff who leave the Department or its agencies.