Cabinet Office’s information on concerns and arrangements across the civil service has improved but it still has several quality limitations. For example, there is no method for capturing outcomes for concerns that are ‘ongoing’ at the point of an annual data collection and no structured data on what the process is like from the whistleblowers’ perspective.10 The Cabinet Office told us that the next time it collects data, it will pick up cases that were outstanding at the previous data collec...

Cabinet Office’s information on concerns and arrangements across the civil service has improved but it still has several quality limitations. For example, there is no method for capturing outcomes for concerns that are ‘ongoing’ at the point of an annual data collection and no structured data on what the process is like from the whistleblowers’ perspective.10 The Cabinet Office told us that the next time it collects data, it will pick up cases that were outstanding at the previous data collection so that it can track them end to end.11 It also accepted that it should ask departments if there are any cases of victimisation or harassment to und Type: conclusion | Number: 7 | Response status: not_addressed Government response: 1.1 The government agrees with the Committee’s recommendation. Target implementation date: Spring 2025 1.2 The Cabinet Office will work with departmental leads to review the annual data collection for the year 2024-25, including the widening of the data set to foc