Ministry of Justice: Disclosure of Information
(asked on 4th July 2017) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many protected disclosures were made by staff in his Department in each of the last three years for which figures are available; how many such disclosures were found to be valid; how many staff alleged detriment as a result of making such a disclosure; and how many staff who (a) made such a disclosure and (b) alleged detriment as a result of a disclosure subsequently left the employment of the Department.
Data on protected disclosures made by staff in MoJ in the last three years, is as follows:
Whistleblowing reporting Year: | Number of cases | Number of complaints upheld | Number of employees that claimed to have suffered a detriment because they raised a whistle blowing concern. | Number of employees that subsequently left the department as result of suffering detriment for blowing the whistle. |
* April 14 – March 15 | Figure not known | Figure not known | Figure not known | Figure not known |
April 15 – March 16 | **5 | Less than 5 | 0 | 0 |
April 16 – March 17 | **7 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 | 0 |
* The MoJ central data base was set up in March 2015. Prior to this information wasn’t recorded in the level of detail required to respond to these questions.
** Figure includes a HMPPS case that was raised directly with the Civil Service Commission.