Question to the Department for Business and Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if she will make an estimate of the proportion of workplace bullying that takes place online.

The department does not conduct research on the scale and impact of workplace bullying, including online.

Acas has published independent research which estimates the cost of workplace conflict more broadly. This measured conflicts at various stages and goes further than just bullying and harassment, including costs of mediation, absences and reduced productivity. This is available at: https://www.acas.org.uk/estimating-the-costs-of-workplace-conflict-report.