Question follow-through · 124316
Department for Work and Pensions: Civil Servants
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many civil servants in their Department were found to have broken the Civil Service Code in (a) 2024 and (b) 2025.
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 26 Mar 2026
- Target answer date
- 13 Apr 2026
- Answer
- 13 Apr 2026 · 18 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
26 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many civil servants in their Department were found to have broken the Civil Service Code in (a) 2024 and (b) 2025.
13 Apr 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
13 Apr 2026
Answer published
The department’s disciplinary report only shows current live, on-going disciplinary cases and those closed within the past 12 months. There is also no detail on the disciplinary report that specifically states breaches of Civil Service Code as the reason ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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