Department for Transport written question – answered at on 14 March 2017.
Jon Trickett
Shadow Minister (Cabinet Office), Shadow Lord President of the Council
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what proportion of Civil Service positions in his Department were vacant for a week or longer in each year since 2010; and what the average turnover rate for civil servants in his Department has been in each year since 2010.
John Hayes
Minister of State (Department for Transport)
The Department does not hold information on the time for which positions are vacant on any reporting system.
Information on turnover for the Department and its executive agencies is presented in the following table. Data is a rolling year as at 31 December for each year and is not available on the current system prior to 2012:
Year | Turnover |
2012 | 6.02% |
2013 | 7.45% |
2014 | 8.63% |
2015 | 8.60% |
2016 | 8.40% |
Notes to data:
*Highways Agency is included in the Departmental turnover until April 2015.
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