The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills made 254 civil servants redundant in 2011-12 at a cost of £15.5 million.
Data released in a parliamentary statement by Liberal Democrat MP Jo Swinson, a junior BIS minister, show that the department made no compulsory redundancies in 2009-10 nor in 2010-11.
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