Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many disciplinary cases were concluded against civil servants in (a) the Department and (b) its agencies broken down by (i) outcome and (ii) whether the primary allegation related to (A) performance and (B) conduct in the past 12 months.

In the last 12 months the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs concluded 51 disciplinary cases. All 51 disciplinary cases were conduct related and not performance related.

Outcomes from these cases were:

• Dismissal
• Final written warning
• Informal action
• Warning
• Withdrawn
• No action

In the last 12 months the Animal and Plant Health Agency, Veterinary Medicines Directorate, Rural Payments Agency and the Centre for Environment Fisheries and Aquaculture Science concluded a total of 48 disciplinary cases.

All 48 disciplinary cases were conduct related and not performance related.

Outcomes from these cases were:

• Dismissal
• Written warning
• Informal action
• Oral warning
• No action
• Withdrawn
• Final written warning
• Mediation
• Other/not recorded