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date	21/06/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Department for Education: Training
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Written Statement of 15 December 2020, HCWS652, what steps he has taken to phase out unconscious bias training in his Department.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	19542
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2021 answer text <p>In October 2020, the Department began phasing out the unconscious bias training by removing the product from the mandatory training schedule.</p><p>Following the <a href="https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-statements/detail/2020-12-15/hcws652" target="_blank">Ministerial Statement</a> on 15 December 2020, in January 2021 the Department fully removed unconscious bias training.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 29/06/2021 16:33:56 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

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registered interest
date	07/09/2020
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Department for Education: Training
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much the Department spent on unconscious bias training in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Harborough
tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
uin	86150
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/09/2020 answer text <p>The Department pays an annual subscription cost to Civil Service Learning, which includes access to a large number of e-learning packages at no charge. This includes Unconscious Bias e-learning.</p><p>In 2018/19, the Department’s HR records show a spend of £92,500 on face to face Unconscious Bias training.</p><p>The figure provided does not include spending on Unconscious Bias training which may have been arranged by Department local business areas via the Civil Service wide offer or via local procurement routes.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 15/09/2020 15:45:38 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1226773

registered interest
date	21/07/2020
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Department for Education: Training
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many staff in his Department have undertaken unconscious bias training in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Harborough
tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
uin	77793
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2020 answer text <p>Information is not available in the format requested, due to data retention periods. In total, the Department has data to show that 2,139 staff have undertaken Unconscious Bias training in the last two years.</p><p>We hold data for online training for the period from February 2019 to January 2020 and for face-to-face training from July 2018. During the period 1<sup>st</sup> February 2019 - 31<sup>st</sup> January 2020 the number of DfE staff starting the Unconscious Bias learning via Civil Service Learning (CSL) website or Learning Platform for Government (LPG) is as follows:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>CSL</p></td><td><p>1230</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>LPG</p></td><td><p>847</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><del class="ministerial">In July 2018, 62 staff attended face-to-face Unconscious Bias workshops.</del> <ins class="ministerial">Between July 2018 and March 2019, approximately 453 staff booked a place on the face to face Unconscious Bias Workshops.</ins></p><p>All departmental training is promoted via the staff intranet.</p><p>Notes:</p><ol><li>The Civil Service Learning (CSL) site records the most recent date that staff have started the learning, which overwrites previous course completion dates. DfE has parallel run CSL and the new Learning Platform for Government (LPG) from 1<sup>st</sup> October 2019.</li></ol><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 07/09/2020 17:18:10 question first ministerially corrected 14/09/2020 18:11:52 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb previous answer version 44801 answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien