Top civil servant Simon Case says a disciplinary process over Covid rule-breaking is ongoing.
Giving evidence to MPs on the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee, Mr Case said some aspects of Ms Gray's report "would be horrifying in any setting".He told the MPs he was not involved in the disciplinary process himself, and he could not comment on individual cases because it was confidential.
He added that officials were being encouraged to be "open and honest" about whether they had been fined - but would not be required to be so.Asked whether they had left the civil service, Mr Case hesitated, before the MP asked whether they had resigned from their jobs, to which he replied: "Yes".
But he said he had consulted with "senior colleagues", including his predecessors, whether he would have to resign if he had received a penalty from police. "If he won't go in those circumstances he'll have to be removed," he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.