Question follow-through · 29025

Department for Work and Pensions: Political Impartiality

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 9 January 2025 to Question 21056 on DWP: Political Impartiality, whether her Department holds information on a disciplinary investigation into party political campaigning by of

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Answering body
Department for Work and Pensions
Tabled
5 Feb 2025
Target answer date
10 Feb 2025
Answer
18 Feb 2025 · 13 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 5 Feb 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 9 January 2025 to Question 21056 on DWP: Political Impartiality, whether her Department holds information on a disciplinary investigation into party political campaigning by of

  2. 10 Feb 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 18 Feb 2025

    Answer published

    As explained in the Answer of 9 January 2025, details of disciplinary investigations are maintained locally. Investigations and informal sanctions are not centrally recorded. We have been made aware of specific allegations made in relation to employee act...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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