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Ministry of Defence

Answer

Mr. Keetch: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many members of the Army indicated when last questioned that they have been a victim of (a) harassment, (b) discrimination and (c) bullying in the Army; what percentage of those responding this represents; what percentage of the actual strength this represents; and if he will make a statement. [142577] Mr. Caplin: In response to the latest Army Serving Personnel Continuous Attitude Survey, those members of the Army that indicated they had been subject to harassment, discrimination or bullying in the last 12 months are shown in the table: _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Question Number within previous 12 Percentage of those who Percentage of those who months: answered the question returned a completed questionnaire Racial Discrimination 37 2.3 2.2 Racial Harassment 26 1.6 1.6 Sex Discrimination 54 3.3 3.2 Sexual Harassment 28 1.7 1.7 Bullying 83 5.1 5.0 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. The latest survey was undertaken in December 2002 and was sent to a 4 per cent. stratified random sample of the trained Army (excluding Gurkhas and Full Time Reserve Service personnel); There may be an element of double counting in the number of occurrences, for example, one individual may have indicated they were subject to both racial discrimination and racial harassment, this having been counted twice.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

142577; 415 c569W

Session

2003-04

Subjects

Bullying Army Equality Harassment Working conditions Surveys

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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