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Departmental Disciplinary Proceedings

Volume 479: debated on Monday 21 July 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many (a) officials in her Department and (b) employees of (i) agencies and (ii) other bodies reporting to her Department were (A) dismissed and (B) disciplined for matters related to their conduct in the last two years. (217602)

The Central Department and its agencies recorded the following instances of disciplinary action relating to employee performance in the period of the last two financial years:

Number of occurrences

Dismissed

61

Disciplined

278

These figures exclude those of the Highways Agency, who could provide the information only at disproportionate cost.