David and Anne Moffat are due to meet the Treasury's permanent secretary, James Bowler, to press for accountability. Their daughter died in August after being called into a surprise disciplinary meeting over anonymous complaints that she had disclosed sensitive information at work, which she denied.
A coroner found in August that the Treasury had 'materially contributed' to Chloe Moffat's death. The inquest heard that managers declined to allow her to bring a colleague to the meeting, gave her no advance notice, refused to tell her whether she might lose her job, removed access to her director's email and changed her responsibilities, despite the meeting being described as informal. She left the meeting 'devastated' and convinced she would be dismissed, and took her own life the following morning.
The Treasury's response to the coroner's prevention of future deaths report, seen by the Guardian, acknowledges the department's role and commits to safeguards to prevent a recurrence. A separate Cabinet Office review of civil service disciplinary procedures found that the conditions Moffat was subjected to had been replicated in other disciplinary meetings.
'We do want to know that staff have been held to account,' David Moffat told the Guardian. 'The coroner didn't ask for that, but obviously that is very important. Chloe was held to account; we need to know that the managers and HR staff are being held to account.'