Department for Transport written question – answered at on 13 June 2025.
John Cooper
Conservative, Dumfries and Galloway
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many permanent civil servants in her Department are staff without assigned posts; and how many are placed in an equivalent (a) people action team, (b) priority movers list, (c) redeployment register, (d) talent pool and (e) skills match hub in the most recent period for which data is available.
Mike Kane
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
There are no permanent civil servants within DfTc and the Agencies without assigned posts.
The Department for Transport (DfTc and the Agencies) has a priority movers list/redeployment register. Within a payroll workforce of over 16000*, the number of people currently on the register for DfTc and the Agencies as of 6th June 2025 is 61.
*Payroll staff total headcount DfT: workforce management information, April 2025 - GOV.UK
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