Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what training his Department has provided to (a) general civil servants, (b) fast stream civil servants and (c) senior civil servants on understanding the scrutiny and legislative roles of the UK Parliament; how many such courses have taken place; and how many civil servants have attended such training courses in each of the last five years.
Defra uses Civil Service Learning (CSL) for the provision of learning and development to our people. The management information data provided by CSL to Defra does not differentiate between generalists and fast stream civil servants and therefore we are not able to provide specific attendance data for CSL courses for fast streamers. The CSL managed learning offer changed in late 2016 / early 2017 and the department only has management information data for learning products accessed via the new managed offer.
CSL’s ‘EU exit and new UK partnerships’ course is a face to face workshop for all grades. CSL released this course in early 2018 and one pilot session has been delivered. No Defra general, fast stream or SCS civil servants attended the pilot course.