Ministry of Defence: Bullying and Harassment

(asked on 18th December 2023) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to page 17 of the guidance entitled JSP 763: Behaviours and Informal Complaint Resolution: Part 1: Directive - Understanding Behaviours in Defence, published in June 2021, how many people who made a complaint of (a) bullying, (b) harassment and (c) discrimination within his Department decided to not take the matter further but keep a personal record.


Answered by
Andrew Murrison Portrait
Andrew Murrison
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence)
This question was answered on 12th January 2024

The below table shows the number of admissible complaints withdrawn before determination across the Royal Navy, Army and RAF.

Year

Reporting Category

2019

2020

2021

2022

2023

Total

Bullying

17

16

11

12

9

65

Discrimination

8

9

6

3

2

28

Harassment

8

5

3

3

0

19

This information is not centrally held for civilian complaints.

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