Ten senior civil servants left the Government Digital Service (GDS) in the year to April, the BBC has learned. This has prompted concern as to why the service cannot hang on to its most experienced staff.
The GDS, which was set up within the Cabinet Office in 2011, helps to support the digital transformation of government, working with departments to introduce and improve online services.
An opposition MP has said the news is "alarming".
A BBC freedom of information request revealed that the GDS lost 10 senior civil servants - of deputy director level and above - across the 2015-16 financial year. The service had 21 senior posts in total as of March 2016.
[...] Tim Farron, leader of the Liberal Democrats, expressed concern at these departures.
"It should be deeply worrying to see some of the brightest talent in the civil service leaving public service to go and work in the private sector," he said.
"Ministers need to make sure that staff feel empowered and engaged, and at the moment it's clear that many civil servants feel neither."
Government workers need to feel "empowered and engaged."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 16 2016, @05:36AM
Why work when you can torrent all day on the dole instead?
leaving public service to go and work in the private sector,"
Oh wait, they're greedy little envious cocksuckers who want to be billionaire Americans. Nothing to see here.
(Score: 2) by davester666 on Friday December 16 2016, @09:10AM
Or their bosses have ordered them to do appalling things...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 16 2016, @01:48PM
Maybe they're particularly fed up with the whole Snooping Charter thing and want nothing to do with it.