To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to paragraph 2.13 on page 4 of his Department's guidance entitled JSP 763 Behaviours and Informal Complaint Resolution Part 2: Guidance - Informal Complaints Resolution Process, how many staff members made informal complaints to diversity and inclusion advisers in each year since 2019.
Answered on
15 January 2024
The Defence D&I adviser log captures incidents reported to Defence D&I advisers, a system that has been in place since the middle of 2021. Prior to that paper records were kept at unit level and the information would be too expensive/ require too many hours to recover.
The number of informal complaints registered by D&I advisers by year are:
- 2021 – 127
- 2022 – 401
- 2023 – 451
- 2024 - 6
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Ministry of Defence
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