Question follow-through · 124319

Department for Transport: Civil Servants

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, 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 Transport
Tabled
26 Mar 2026
Target answer date
13 Apr 2026
Answer
17 Apr 2026 · 22 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 26 Mar 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many civil servants in their Department were found to have broken the Civil Service Code in (a) 2024 and (b) 2025.

  2. 13 Apr 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 17 Apr 2026

    Answer published

    In 2024 there were 8 disciplinary cases in the central Government Department that closed in that year and where the reason for the case was categorised specifically as ‘Breaches of the Civil Service Code’. Of these 8 cases, less than 5 resulted in Final ...

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