Civil Servants: Codes of Practice

(asked on 3rd July 2014) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) internal and (b) external complaints have been received by her Department about alleged breaches of the Civil Service Code of Conduct since 2010; and what actions her Department has taken in response to each such complaint.


Answered by
Karen Bradley Portrait
Karen Bradley
This question was answered on 17th July 2014

This information could only be provided at disproportionate cost.

Complaints are normally dealt with by the line management chain within
Departments in the first instance, with the most serious cases escalated to
senior managers, HR or the Permanent Secretary.

Where a Civil Servant is not satisfied with how the matter has been handled by
a Department, he or she can raise the matter with the Civil Service Commission.
The Commission publishes details of the number of complaints received annually.

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