Ministry of Defence: Bullying and Discrimination

(asked on 12th December 2023) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many reports of (a) bullying, (b) harassment and (c) discrimination were made by staff in his Department in each of the last five years.


Answered by
Andrew Murrison Portrait
Andrew Murrison
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence)
This question was answered on 18th December 2023

The below table shows the number of civilian complaints received within the Department in each of the last five calendar years.

Complaint Type

Calendar Year

Bullying

Harassment

Discrimination

Total for year

2019

20

11

-

31

2020

53

15

-

68

2021

76

4

-

80

2022

78

3

23

104

2023, up to 13 December 2023

56

6

6

68

It is important to note that before 2022, ‘discrimination’ was not an explicitly defined category available for civilian data, so it is not possible to be able to say which – if any – complaints were due to Discrimination.

Data from 2019-2021 is from the HRMS System. Data for 2022 and 2023 is from the MyHR System.

The below table shows the number of complaints made within the tri-Services in each of the last five calendar years.

Royal Navy

Calendar Year

Bullying

Harassment

Discrimination

Total for year

Direct

Indirect

2019

20

6

4

2

32

2020

23

2

6

8

39

2021

25

3

5

3

36

2022

35

9

8

7

59

2023, up to 13 December 2023

35

3

11

3

52

Army

Calendar Year

Bullying

Harassment

Discrimination

Total for year

Direct

Indirect

2019

94

12

19

6

131

2020

75

12

47

4

138

2021

78

7

47

6

138

2022

80

8

38

7

133

2023, up to 13 December 2023

70

8

53

3

134

RAF

Calendar Year

Bullying

Harassment

Discrimination

Total for year

Direct

Indirect

2019

29

3

5

3

40

2020

21

1

9

0

31

2021

45

7

9

0

61

2022

32

2

6

0

40

2023, up to 13 December 2023

36

3

17

0

56

Reticulating Splines