Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Written Statement of 15 December 2020, HCWS652, what steps he has taken to phase out unconscious bias training in his Department.

In October 2020, the Department began phasing out the unconscious bias training by removing the product from the mandatory training schedule.

Following the Ministerial Statement on 15 December 2020, in January 2021 the Department fully removed unconscious bias training.