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Ministry of Defence: Civil Servants

Asked by Mr Peter BedfordConservativeMinistry of DefenceTabled Answered 16 April 2026UIN 124321

The question

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

Answered by Louise Sandher-Jones

The Ministry of Defence does not centrally record the number of civil servants who have been found to have broken the Civil Service Code and this information could only be provided at disproportionate cost. To determine the number who had, this would require a manual check of every misconduct case with the outcome of a sanction and every case that was upheld or partially upheld to check if the Civil Service Code had been broken.

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