Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to page 79 of his Department's Annual Report and Accounts 2022-23, how many people participated in the fraud, bribery and corruption training package in each year from 2019 to 2023 as of 23 November 2023.

A Defence version of the Fraud Bribery & Corruption online training package was launched in 2021 for civil servants with the single Service specific versions launched in May 2022. The participation data for these courses is only available from May 2022 for all 4 combined variants as set out below:

In addition to these figures, a proportion of Defence workers have continued to undertake the standard Civil Service version of the course hosted on the Civil Service Learning (CSL) platform. Defence continues to signpost its people to the MOD versions of the courses and has taken steps to remove the automatic reminders on CSL. Data for CSL is only available from 2021:

Prior to May 2022, the training was only formally mandated for civil servants and service personnel who line managed civilian or contractors where their employer did not provide equivalent training.