Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make an estimate of the number of staff who have been subject to (a) sexual harassment and (b) bullying in his Department in each year since 2018.
The annual Civil Service People Survey looks at civil servants’ attitudes to, and experience of working in government departments. Staff are asked about their experiences of harassment or bullying at work over the previous 12-months. Due to how the data is captured, it is not possible to separate out bullying from harassment.
Within the People Survey, staff reporting experiencing harassment or bullying at work over the previous 12-months:
2018: 11%
2019: 12%
2020: 8%
2021: 10%
2022: results are not yet available.