Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish a list of training programmes used by civil servants in his Department since 2020.

The Department’s approach to learning, development, and training programmes is designed to build a highly skilled, confident workforce. The Department has progressively strengthened its offer since 2020 through the introduction and iteration of the Core Skills Programme. The training programme focuses on developing profession specific and working in Government skills.

In addition to departmental learning provisions, business areas are allocated devolved learning and development budgets, enabling them to prioritise training that addresses their own identified capability needs. These individual training requirements tend to be job-specific, personal development, technical, qualifications, or accreditation based, or subject matter expertise related, such as specific policy areas.

A full list of departmental provision since 2020 is provided below, and this is in addition to courses that can be booked individually through Civil Service Learning, the cross Civil Service Learning Platform:

- Management Fundamentals 2020;

- New Manager Programme 2021;

- Experienced Manager Programme 2021;

- Foundation Management Programme 2023;

- Practitioner Management Programme 2023;

- Department of Health and Social Care Management Fundamentals 2023;

- ACAS Line Manager training 2023;

- Core Skills Programme 2023 to present, covering policy, digital, project delivery, commercial, analysis and finance, and working in Government skills;

- the Department’s Management Academy, Managing Change Programme 2023 to 2024, to strengthen capability in leading people through organisational change;

- People Policies Workshop 2025 to present, for line-management learning intervention focused on practical application of core people policies; and

- Leadership Development Programme, which is ongoing.

The Department also delivers a number of talent schemes which incorporate formal training and development programmes alongside on‑the‑job experience. These schemes are designed to build future capability in priority professions and leadership pipelines, supporting individuals at different career stages, including both delegated grades and Senior Civil Servants (SCS), through a combination of a defined learning curriculum, practical development, and coaching and mentoring. A list of departmental talent schemes that have delivered training programmes since 2020 is set out below. For delegated grade talent schemes, they are as follows:

- Health Policy Fast Track Scheme;

- Civil Service Fast Stream;

- Future Leaders Scheme;

- Beyond Boundaries;

- Interdepartmental Talent Programme;

- Summer Internship Programme;

- Autism Exchange Internship Programme;

- Care Leavers Internship Scheme; and

- Civil Service Apprenticeship Programmes.

And for SCS talent schemes, the programmes are as follows:

- Senior Leaders Scheme;

- Directors Leadership Programme;

- Forward Institute Exchange Programme ;

- Forward Institute Fellowship;

- Individual Development Programme;

- OpDel Exchange Programme;

- Policy Fellowship for the Centre for Science and Policy;

- Whitehall and Industry Group Senior Leaders Programme;

- Whitehall and Industry Group Exchange Programme; and

- High Potential Development Scheme.