Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Training
(asked on 7th September 2020) - View Source
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much the Department spent on unconscious bias training in each of the last five years.
Defra obtains unconscious bias training for Senior Civil Servants and delegated grades from Civil Service Learning (CSL)[1]. All CSL online training is provided free of charge at point of use to our staff.
The information is in the table below:
Central departmental spend on unconscious bias training 2015-20
Course type | FY 2015/16 | FY 2016/17 | FY 2017/18 | FY 2018/19 | FY 2019/20 |
Unconscious bias workshop(s) | £2,833 | £21,095 | Nil spend | Nil spend | Nil spend |
Data source: Records of spend against a central learning and development budget.
[1] It is mandatory for civil servants to use CSL for their learning.