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 understanding the scrutiny and legislative roles of the UK Parliament; 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 runs three training courses on understanding the scrutiny and legislative roles of the United Kingdom Parliament: legislation, Parliamentary accountability and select committees. Further information on registrations for these courses is in the following table.
Name of Module | Date introduced | Number of Sessions | Number of Registrations |
Legislation | March 2015 | 14 | 240 |
Parliamentary Accountability | February 2015 | 16 | 265 |
Select Committees | March 2016 | 7 | 117 |
Note:
These courses are open to civil servants at all grades, including fast streamers, as well as staff in our arm’s length bodies. Therefore the total number of registrations will include non-civil servants as well as civil servants. These courses have been running since February 2015.
Information on organisation and grade of attendee is collected in our feedback forms. However, not all attendees return feedback forms and this data is not an accurate representation of the grades of people who attended.
Between November 2017 and January 2018 the Department also ran three workshops on secondary legislation for staff with statutory instruments due to be laid. 16 civil servants attended these workshops; information on grade was not collected.