Departmental Dismissal

Chris Huhne
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.

Mr. Straw
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.

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|       |Dismissals for under-performance|Total dismissals|Number of MOJ employees|
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|2007-08|18                              |533             |78,789                 |
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|2008-09|27                              |481             |81,402                 |
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