Speeches

Jonathan Ashworth – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the HM Treasury

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

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, (a) how many and (b) what proportion of officials of his Department resigned in each of the last six years.

Harriett Baldwin

A report was generated from the department’s data management system for the financial years requested. I can confirm that a total of 541 officials have resigned in the last six financial years. The proportion of resignations for each of those six years can be viewed in the table below.

April 10 to March 11

April 11 to March 12

April 12 to March 13

Resignations

92

104

82

Proportion of Officials (%)

6.9%

9.0%

7.2%

April 13 to March 14

April 14 to March 15

April 15 to March 16

Resignations

83

101

79

Proportion of Officials (%)

7.5%

9.1%

6.3%