Department of Transport: Performance Appraisal
(asked on 21st November 2025) - View Source
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many and what proportion of staff in each grade were rated in the top performance category in the last year.
The table below shows the number and proportion of each non-Senior Civil Service (SCS) grade receiving the top performance category at the end of 2024/25 for DfTc.
Grade | Number of staff receiving the top performance category (“Outstanding”) | Proportion of staff in grade who received a performance descriptor (%) |
AO-EO | 16 | 7.2% |
HEO | 21 | 5.1% |
SEO | 36 | 6.4% |
Grade 7 | 53 | 7.4% |
Grade 6 | 40 | 12.7% |
The SCS have a separate performance management system. For the 2024/25 performance year, 20.3% of Group DfT SCS received a top performance category, following departmental moderation processes.