Home Office: Disciplinary Proceedings

(asked on 4th December 2025) - View Source
Questioner
Neil O'Brien Portrait
Neil O'Brien
(Conservative - Harborough, Oadby and Wigston)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, in the past twelve months, how many disciplinary cases were concluded against civil servants in (a) her Department and (b) its agencies broken down by (i) outcome and (ii) whether the primary allegation related to (A) performance and (B) conduct.

Answered by
Sarah Jones Portrait
Sarah Jones
Minister of State (Home Office)
This question was answered on 5th January 2026

Please find table below outlining disciplinary cases by performance and conduct.

Discipline Outcome

Headcount

Performance

Dismissal - Poor Performance

20

Dismissal - Probation

50

Conduct

Dismissals with leaving reason containing Gross Misconduct

132

Final Written Warning

8

First Written Warning

10

No Formal Action

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