Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Disclosure of Information
(asked on 4th July 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, 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 of those disclosures were found to be valid; how many staff alleged detriment as a result of having made a protected disclosure; and how many of those staff subsequently left the employment of the Department.
The Department for Business Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has a whistleblowing policy and procedure in place which allows for civil servants to report a perceived wrongdoing within the department, including something that they believe goes against the core values in the Civil Service Code. The Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998 (PIDA) will apply in some of these cases, and provides protection to those that ‘blow the whistle’ in certain circumstances.
The figures provided in the table below show the total number of whistleblowing cases that were protected disclosures under PIDA (A).
The table goes on to show the number of cases found to be valid under PIDA (B), the number of employees that alleged detriment as a result of the disclosure under PIDA (C), and finally the number of employees who made a disclosure under PIDA, alleged detriment as a result of a disclosure and subsequently left the department (D).
As BEIS was formed on 14th July 2016 we are only able to provide data from that date.
| A. Number of whistleblowing cases that were covered under PIDA | B. Number of cases found to be valid under PIDA | C. Number of employees that alleged detriment as a result of the disclosure under PIDA | D. Number of employees who subsequently left the department (i.e. after making a disclosure and then alleged detriment as a result of the disclosure) |
2016/17 | Less than 5 | Less than 5 | 0 | 0 |