Women and Equalities written question – answered am ar 17 Gorffennaf 2013.
Steve Barclay
Ceidwadwyr, North East Cambridgeshire
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities how many senior civil servants left the Government Equalities Office and public bodies under voluntary exit and received a severance payment in each of the last three years; and what the value of such payments was.
Helen Grant
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Women and Equalities
As a result of the machinery of government change in September 2012, the Government Equalities office transferred from the Home Office to DCMS.
Table 1 shows the number of senior civil servants who left the Department under a voluntary exit scheme in each of the last three financial years and Table 2 the value of such payments by cost band.
| Table 1 | |||
| Financial year | 2010-11 | 2011 -12 | 2012-13 |
| Number of leavers in senior civil service grades | 8 | 3 | 3 |
| Table 2 | |||
| Cost band of such payments | 2010-11 | 2011-12 | 2012-13 |
| <£10,000 | — | — | — |
| £10,000 to £25,000 | — | — | — |
| £25,000 to £50,000 | 2 | — | — |
| £50,000 to £100,000 | 1 | — | — |
| £100,000 to £150,000 | 4 | 1 | — |
| £150,000 to £200,000 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| £200,000 to £250,000 | — | — | 1 |
As part of a money saving exercise, in line with the rest of Government, DCMS has been offering, in cyclical phases, the opportunity for civil servants to take voluntary redundancy. DCMS does not hold central records for our bodies. Figures for the Government Equalities Office, which joined my DCMS in September 2012 are held by the Home office, its previous parent Department.
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