Question to the Department for Education:

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.

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.

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^st February 2019 - 31^st 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:

Between July 2018 and March 2019, approximately 453 staff booked a place on the face to face Unconscious Bias Workshops.

All departmental training is promoted via the staff intranet.

Notes:

1. 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^st October 2019.