Lisa Nandy – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Cabinet Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lisa Nandy on 2014-05-06.

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many staff who were suspended remained on his Department’s payroll in (a) 2012-13 and (b) 2013-14; and on what date the official suspension commenced in each such case.

Mr Francis Maude

In line with the practice of previous Administrations exact numbers are not usually disclosed to protect individual privacy when numbers are five or fewer.

No staff in my department were suspended and remained on payroll in 2012-13.

Five or fewer civil servants in my department were suspended on full pay in the year 2013-14.