Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much the Department spent on unconscious bias training in each of the last five years.

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.

In 2018/19, the Department’s HR records show a spend of £92,500 on face to face Unconscious Bias training.

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.