Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 12 July to Question 29976, for what reason his Department made payments of (a) £600 to the Active Bystander Training Company on 11 April 2022 and (b) £1,140 to the Plain English Campaign on 19 April 2022.

Purchases questioned were made using the Department’s Electronic Purchasing Card Solution (ePCS), which is our preferred method for low value expenditure.

The requested items were purchased for:

1. Training for 40 staff on how to challenge unacceptable behaviour, with the aim of improving gender equality.

2. Training for new team members on how to draft high quality responses to public and ministerial correspondence.