The Department for Transport has sacked 0.4% of poorly performing staff in the last half decade. Louise Haigh was just unlucky…
Tory Shadow Minister for Policy Renewal and Development Neil O’Brien asked the DfT how many performance reviews have resulted in an unsatisfactory rating across the department and its agencies in the last five years and how many staff were sacked as a result. To begin with unsatisfactory performances are on the up:
Across the DfT and its entire gamut of agencies only 11 staff have left thanks to poor performance. So if a civil servant performs badly they have a 0.3957% likelihood of being sacked. Might as well put their feet up…
Justice minister Alex Davies-Jones told the Today Programme it wasn’t ‘appropriate’ to ask whether or not David Lammy was shopping prior to DPMQs instead of trying to sort out the released prisoner:
“He was preparing for Deputy Prime Minister’s Questions. He was preparing to stand in for the Prime Minister, the first ever black person to do so… He cracked a joke because his poppy had fallen off this suit, which he also addressed during the Deputy Prime Minister’s Questions… I don’t think it’s appropriate to get into the weeds of if he was shopping or not in the morning.”