6,400 equality/diversity courses for government staff

The government says its staff have attended more than 6,400 equality courses in the past five years.

A Freedom of Information request to the Cabinet Office asked how many government employees had been on a variety of course modules about equality.

In its response, the government said a total of 6,440 such courses had been taken by its staff since 2019.

The modules included training about unconscious bias, harnessing diversity and equality and diversity essentials.