To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) how many civil servants in her Department have been (a) disciplined and (b) dismissed for breaches of the Civil Service Code in each of the last three years; (241408)

[holding answer 9 December 2008]: Information on breaches of the civil service code is not held centrally, because cases where staff are disciplined or dismissed are recorded in relation to the category of offence (for instance, abuse of IT or general misconduct). Collating this information would incur disproportionate cost.

But the figures in relation to all discipline and dismissal cases, on disciplinary grounds, attendance grounds and efficiency grounds in Home Office HQ and the UK Border Agency for the last three years are:

The police were passed papers relating to a range of identified leaks from the Home Office. It is Home Office policy not to comment on the nature of leaked material.