FOI_25-206 Staff disciplinary and outcomes
Date of response: 14 July 2025
We have now considered your request of 08 July 2025 for the following information:
Question 1. Number of staff within your organisation who were formally disciplined for misconduct over the last three years (broken down by calendar year).
Our response:
| Year | No. of staff formally disciplined for misconduct |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 16 |
| 2023 | 2 |
| 2024 | 7 |
Question 2. I’d also like to know the outcomes of the disciplinary action e.g.
• 14 staff dismissed
• 12 staff issued a written warning
• 16 staff given a final written warning
Our response:
| Dismissed | Final written warning | Written warning | Oral warning | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 1 |
| 2023 | <5 | >5 | >5 | <5 |
| 2024 | <5 | 0 | <5 | <5 |
On this occasion, it is not possible to provide all the requested information. The Act contains several exemptions that allow public authorities to withhold certain information from release. We have applied the following exemption to part of your request.
| Exemption | Reason |
|---|---|
| s.40(2), Personal information | Disclosure of some of the requested information would be contrary to the requirements of the UK General Data Protection Regulation |
We can confirm that the University does hold this data and we believe that the requested information, constitutes the personal data of individuals, as defined by Article 4(1) of the UK General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). However, due to the small numbers involved, we consider these details are exempt from disclosure under Section 40(2) of the FOI Act.
We believe that disclosure this data would be contrary to the requirements of Article 5(1)(a) of the GDPR; namely that information must be processed lawfully, fairly and in a transparent manner. These individuals would have no expectation that this information would be made publicly available, and we have not identified a lawful basis that would allow or require us to disclose this information. To ensure that we do not inadvertently release personal data in this response or in combination with other publicly available data, we have replaced some values between 0 and 4 in relation to the number of individuals with the value ‘<5’.