To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many staff in his Department and its predecessors and their agencies were (a) dismissed and (b) disciplined for their conduct in each of the last 10 years. (227078)

Information in a validated and comparable form is available only for dismissals for the last two years. Figures for these years for dismissals are as follows:

To obtain the other information in the format requested would incur disproportionate costs as all personal files of current and ex-employees would have to be checked to collate this information for the past 10 years.