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Written Question
Civil Servants: Codes of Practice
Wednesday 9th July 2014

Asked by: Lindsay Roy (Labour - Glenrothes)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many (a) internal and (b) external complaints have been received by his Department about alleged breaches of the Civil Service Code of Conduct since 2010; and what actions his Department has taken in response to each such complaint.

Answered by Mike Penning

The requirements of the Civil Service Code are incorporated within the Department's Standards of Behaviour Policy which sets out the Department's high expectations of employees. Breaches of the Civil Service Code are not specifically identified; the Department records disciplinary incidents under its Standards of Behaviour policy.