Prior to a civil service role ending employees are given the opportunity for redeployment before a paid exit is considered.

The following table provides the information requested for spend on redundancies in Scotland and the rest of the UK since May 2010. This includes compensation paid through the use of voluntary exit schemes, voluntary redundancy and compulsory redundancy schemes.

Three people have been rehired after leaving the DWP on exit/redundancy terms. None of the individuals rehired were in Scotland.

The following table provides the information requested for numbers of temporary roles in DWP since May 2010:

The following tables provide the information requested which includes compensation paid through the use of voluntary exit schemes, voluntary redundancy and compulsory redundancy, for every DWP Executive agency or non-departmental body that declared any post redundant from 1999 to 2012.

As the National Employment Savings Trust (NEST) was created in 2010 I have not been able to provide any data prior to this.

The information requested from HSE is not available from 1999 to 2005.

In all cases, prior to a civil service role ending, employees are given the opportunity for redeployment before a paid exit is considered.

The Department for Work and Pensions was created in 2001, therefore I am not able to provide the information requested for years prior to this, and the information requested is not held in Departmental records for the years 2001 to 2004.

In the following table I have reproduced the information requested, since 2004, which includes compensation paid through the use of voluntary exit schemes, voluntary redundancy and compulsory redundancy.

In all cases, prior to a civil service role ending, employees are given the opportunity for redeployment before a paid exit is considered.

1,435 employees departed the Department for Work and Pensions early via exit schemes with a last day of service between 1 April 2011 and 31 March 2012. The total cost to DWP under the Civil Service Compensation Scheme was £71.2 million, with an average exit cost of £49.6k.

The cost is made up of lump sum compensation payments paid to exiting staff, and the cost to DWP of buying out any actuarial reduction in pension, should an employee choose this option.

The costs of annual pension amounts and lump sum pension payments are not borne by the department, but are drawn from the Principal Civil Service Pension scheme. As such the department does not have this information available

In the last two years the Department for Work and Pensions has not made any employees compulsorily redundant. Two employees at senior civil service level have been issued with notice of redundancy and are due to leave the Department on 31 July 2012.

In addition, a number of employees have accepted release on voluntary redundancy terms as follows:

Six senior civil servants left the Department on voluntary redundancy (VR) terms on 31 March 2012.

The following numbers of staff have accepted VR terms and are due to leave the Department on the respective last day of service as shown:

178 employees at the Administrative Assistant to Senior Executive Officer grades will leave the Department on 31 May 2012;

One employee at Grade 6 level and two at Grade 7 level will leave the Department on 30 June 2012

Two employees at Senior Executive Officer and two employees at Higher Executive Officer level will leave the department on 31 July 2012.

To serve as context, the Department employed 97,963 full-time equivalent staff on 31 March 2011 and 88,626 full-time equivalent staff on 31 March 2012.

In 2010-11 a total of 10,775 full-time equivalent staff left the Department and in 2011-12 a total of 9,436 full-time equivalent staff left the Department.