Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much funding the Government has allocated for the training of frontline public sector workers to provide trauma-informed support in the last three years.

The Home Office can confirm that there has been nil funding/budget or expenditure for the training of frontline public sector workers to provide trauma-informed support in the last three years.

Border Force has a Trauma Risk Management course that the HR Business Partners deliver to staff internally, as this is in house training there is no budget assigned for delivery.

As all training is internally delivered by staff members there are no costings or budgets assigned outside of salaried roles of staff members. Border Force currently have 239 staff members trained in this type of content and these are replenished by 40 staff members per year. Immigration Enforcement have 70 staff members trained. Border Force and Immigration Enforcement are deemed as frontline public sector workers.

Within Border Force during the last 12 months there were 107 incidents where this type of training was used.