Departments: Early Retirement
Health
Brian Jenkins (Tamworth, Labour)
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many of his staff took early retirement in the last five years; at what cost; what grades of staff took early retirement; and what percentage of each grade took early retirement.
Dawn Primarolo (Minister of State (Public Health), Department of Health; Bristol South, Labour)
A breakdown of sums paid from 2004-05 to date, specific to the Department, is given in the following table.
| Total (£ million) | |
| 2004-05 | 23.1 |
| 2005-06 | 6.5 |
| 2006-07 | 4.7 |
| 2007-08 | 4.9 |
The following table provides the number of staff that have taken early retirement/severance and compulsory leavers since 2004.
| People number | |
| 2004-05 | 200 |
| 2005-06 | 33 |
| 2006-07 | 39 |
| 2007-08 | 55 |
Details of specific grades of staff and percentage of staff in grades could be established only at disproportionate cost.