Speeches

Jonathan Ashworth – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Culture, Media and Sport

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jonathan Ashworth on 2016-04-11.

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, (a) how many and (b) what proportion of officials of his Department resigned in each of the last six years.

Mr Edward Vaizey

2011-12

2012-13

2013-14

2014-15

2015-16

Resignations (FTE)

10

30

18

15

21

Payroll Employees (FTE)

457

376

381

461

517

Proportion

2%

8%

5%

3%

4%

The data for resignations has been sourced from the HR Management System Leavers Reports for each financial year. Data is recorded from 2011 onwards and records prior to this data cannot be provided.

The Total headcount figures have been sourced from the DCMS Annual Accounts and only employees who were on DCMS payroll at the point they left the department are included in the data above.