Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much NHS England spent on equality and diversity training in the 2022-23 financial year.

NHS England spent £64,200 on equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) training in the 2022/23 financial year.

Health Education England (HEE) has now legally merged with NHS England. HEE did not hold a cost figure in a centrally retrievable format for equality, diversity, and inclusion training. Staff training on EDI was primarily delivered internally by HEE’s EDI team, and therefore spending on training was incorporated within the team’s wider budget and spend. In 2022/23, HEE’s spend on activities related to EDI, including training, was £170,951.