Department for Energy Security and Net Zero: Career Development

(asked on 8th December 2025) - View Source

Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, how many and what proportion of staff were promoted (a) in-grade and (b) to a higher grade in the last year broken down by (i) performance marking in the previous year and (ii) grade.


Answered by
Michael Shanks Portrait
Michael Shanks
Minister of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
This question was answered on 16th December 2025

The Department or Energy Security and Net Zero does not promote in-grade.

Performance markings are not held centrally.

Table 1 Grade (No. and %) between April 2024 and March 2025



Grade

No. Promoted

% of those still in dept who were promoted

AO

0.0%

EO

31

17%

HEO

134

24%

FASTSTREAM

<=30

<=30

SEO

105

9%

G7

53

3 %

G6

<=30

<=30

SCS 1

<=30

<=30

Total

347

8%

Numbers of 30 or fewer employees have been redacted.

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