Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 4 October 2024 to Question 4699 on Civil Servants: Political Impartiality, whether there have been disciplinary investigations of potential breaches of political impartiality restrictions by campaigning in elections by officials in her Department in the last 18 months.

The information you have requested is not on a central system. Gathering this information would require input from team leaders and will incur disproportionate costs.

Within the Civil Service Code and re-iterated within the DWP’s Standards of Behaviour policy, is the statement that all Civil Servants must consistently demonstrate honesty, integrity, objectivity and impartiality in their conduct.