Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what training his Department has provided to (a) general civil servants, (b) fast stream civil servants and (c) senior civil servants on devolution and inter-governmental relations; how many such courses have taken place; and how many civil servants have attended such training courses in each of the last five years.

The Department offers the Policy Certificate to all civil servants (including fast streamers and senior civil servants) within the Department and the Department’s arm’s length bodies (ALBs). The Department Devolution Policy Certificate module has been running since February 2015. Since February 2015 this module has run 19 times and 191 people registered to attend this training session, which includes representatives from the Department’s ALBs.