Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether he plans to reduce barriers to making civil servants redundant who do not deliver efficiency savings.

The Government remains committed to the 2016 Protocol and the need to avoid compulsory redundancies as far as possible.

Separately to redundancies, the Government has set out plans to introduce mutually agreed exits to allow Civil Service employers to come to a sensible and pragmatic agreement with an employee regarding their future when it is clear that things aren’t working.