Question follow-through · 82367
Department for Business and Trade: Disciplinary Proceedings
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many officials were investigated under his Department's disciplinary processes in each of the last 5 years.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 15 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 20 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 24 Oct 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
15 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many officials were investigated under his Department's disciplinary processes in each of the last 5 years.
20 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
24 Oct 2025
Answer published
On 1st July 2023 due to a Machinery of Government Change, the Department of International Trade (DIT) became the Department for Business and Trade (DBT), alongside parts of the Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy (BEIS). We therefore ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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