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Department for Culture, Media and Sport: Disciplinary Proceedings

Asked by Mr Tanmanjeet Singh DhesiLabourDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled Answered 20 October 2025UIN 82371

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many officials were investigated under their Department's disciplinary processes in each of the last five years.

Answered by Ian Murray

From 1st January 2021 until 16th October 2025 25 officials have been investigated under the department’s disciplinary processes.

We are unable to provide the yearly breakdown of disciplinary investigations because doing so would breach the Data Protection Act. This is due to the risk of identifying individuals in years where the case count is five or less, as the information relates to someone other than the data subjects and the risk of individuals becoming identifiable where case numbers for some years are 5 or less.

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