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…
Speaking at his speech on how to achieve “progressive capitalism” Wes Streeting fired a dig and Andy Burnham:
“Bond markets are not bond villains and fiscal rules matter.”