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Ministry of Defence: Bullying and Harassment

Question for Ministry of Defence

UIN 9756, tabled on 16 January 2024

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 15 January 2024 to Question 8912 on Ministry of Defence: Bullying and Harassment, how many (a) bullying, (b) discrimination and (c) harassment complaints were recorded on MyHR in each year since 2019.

Answered on

19 January 2024

The below table shows the number of civilian complaints recorded as being received and resolved in each of the last five calendar years. Data from 2019-2021 is from the HRMS System. Data for 2022 and 2023 is from the MyHR System.

Complaint Type

Calendar Year

Bullying

Harassment

Discrimination

Resolved

Received

Resolved

Received

Resolved

Received

2019

21

20

26

11

Before 2022, ‘discrimination’ was not an explicitly defined category available for civilian data

2020

28

53

33

15

2021

18

76

67

4

2022

72

78

3

3

19

23

2023, up to 13 December 2023

93

56

6

6

15

6

Before 2022, ‘discrimination’ was not an explicitly defined category available for civilian data, so it is not possible to be able to say which – if any – complaints were due to Discrimination.

In the MyHR Data set, numbers are identified using the ‘Date from’ field.

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