To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many settlement payments his Department issued following claims of (a) bullying, (b) harassment and (c) discrimination in the (i) 2019-20 (ii) 2020-21, (iii) 2021-22 and (iv) 2022-23 financial years.
Answered on
15 January 2024
Reports generated from the Civil Service Casework Management Application database state that there were no settlement payments made in relation to cases with either bullying and/or harassment recorded as a reason for the case in the financial years 2019-20, 2020-21, 2021-22 or 2022-23. In relation to cases where discrimination was referenced in the reasons for the case, one settlement payment was made in 2019-20 and two were made in 2022-23. There are no other records of settlement payments for discrimination in either 2020-21 or 2021-22.