Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much the Department spent on unconscious bias training in each of the last five years.
Much of the Unconscious Bias training undertaken in DWP is by E Learning and therefore is cost neutral. The number of people to have undertaken Unconscious Bias E Learning over the last five years is as follows
2016 - 6835
2017 - 12359
2018 - 14121
2019 - 17354
2020 - 6051
In addition, there is a face-to-face Unconscious Bias course which employees can attend. We hold no centralised records for courses that were held for 2016 and 2017. In 2018 384 people completed that learning at a cost of £60,000 and in 2019 336 people completed the learning at a cost of £52,500. Due to Covid no one has attended a face to face event in 2020.