Nick Gibb corrected a written answer on Department for Education: Training

14 September 2020 · Commons written answer · Department for Education

Neil O'Brien (Conservative, Harborough) asked written question 77793 on 21 July 2020. Nick Gibb answered on 7 September 2020 for the Department for Education, and Nick Gibb corrected the answer on 14 September 2020. The corrected text adds the figure 453, which the original did not give. Altogether 22 words differ between the two versions.

The question

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.

Original and corrected answer

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Original	Corrected
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: CSL \| 1230 LPG \| 847 In July ~~2018, 62~~ staff ~~attended face-to-face~~ Unconscious Bias ~~workshops.~~ All departmental training is promoted via the staff intranet. Notes: 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.	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: CSL \| 1230 LPG \| 847 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: 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.

Original

Corrected

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:
CSL
| 1230
LPG
| 847
In July ~~2018, 62~~ staff ~~attended face-to-face~~ Unconscious Bias ~~workshops.~~
All departmental training is promoted via the staff intranet.
Notes:
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.

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:
CSL
| 1230
LPG
| 847
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:
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.

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