Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether she is taking steps to ensure that staff in her Department who are under investigation for alleged misconduct are not named before those allegations are proven.

Allegations of misconduct against a Department for Culture, Media and Sport employee are internally investigated under either the department’s Grievance or Whistleblowing Policy & Procedures. Investigations of this nature are carried out in strict confidence. Names of individuals under investigation are therefore not made public, either within the department or externally. The Department's policies follow Civil Service HR's wider model policies and best practices.