Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many settlement payments his Department issued following claims of (a) bullying, (b) harassment and (c) discrimination in the (i) 2019-20 (ii) 2020-21, (iii) 2021-22 and (iv) 2022-23 financial years.
Reports generated from the Civil Service Casework Management Application database state that there were no settlement payments made in relation to cases with either bullying and/or harassment recorded as a reason for the case in the financial years 2019-20, 2020-21, 2021-22 or 2022-23. In relation to cases where discrimination was referenced in the reasons for the case, one settlement payment was made in 2019-20 and two were made in 2022-23. There are no other records of settlement payments for discrimination in either 2020-21 or 2021-22.