Department for Business and Trade: Career Development
(asked on 3rd December 2025) - View Source
Question to the Department for Business and Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many and what proportion of staff in each grade were rated in the top performance category in the last year.
The information provided below relates to the recorded ratings on the Department’s HR information system for the period of 1st April 2024 to 31st March 2025, in line with the Department’s performance cycle.
Delegated grades within the Department have two performance ratings - Met and Not Met.
Delegated Grades Performance Ratings Distribution for 2024/25
| Met | Not Met | Proportion in Met (of those with a recorded rating) |
AO | 23 | 0 | 100.00% |
EO | 198 | 8 | 96.12% |
HEO | 537 | 12 | 97.81% |
FS | 0 | 0 | 0% |
SEO | 874 | 12 | 98.65% |
G7 | 853 | 6 | 99.30% |
G6 | 267 | 0 | 100.00% |
Total | 2752 | 38 | 98.64% |
Senior Civil Servants (SCS) have four box ratings ‘Exceeding’, High Performing’ ‘Achieving’ and ‘Partially Met’. Exceeding is the top box rating.
| Total Top Rating (Exceeding) | Total Eligible | Proportion in Exceeded (out of total Eligible) |
SCS1 | 30 | 221 | 14% |
SCS2 | 8 | 57 | 14% |
SCS3 | 1 | 10 | 10% |
Total | 39 | 288 | 14% |