Margaret Ferrier – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Justice

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Margaret Ferrier on 2016-01-28.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the oral contribution of the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice of 26 January 2016, Official Report, column 129, how many staff in his Department were given an end-of-year appraisal rating of outstanding in each year since 2010.

Dominic Raab

The new Ministry of Justice (MoJ) appraisal system incorporates a guided distribution which sets the parameters for the number of Outstanding, performance markings. MoJ adopted a staggered approach to implementing the new cross government performance management system. Launch dates were as follows:

• MoJ HQ, agencies Arms Length Bodies (excluding National Offender Management Service (NOMS) and National Probation Service (NPS)) – April 2013
• NOMS – April 2014
• NPS – June 2014

Please note that the term Outstanding was not used across all MoJ business groups prior to the introduction of the new system.