PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Home Office: Equality (28 October 2024)

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether (a) guidance has been issued and (b) training courses have been delivered to staff in her Department on (i) unconscious bias, (ii) critical race theory and (iii) decolonisation since January 2024.

Asked by:
Nick Timothy (Conservative)

In 2021-2022, in response to Recommendation 6 of the Windrush Report, the previous government commissioned the introduction of a new training course for Home Office staff on the ‘History of the UK and its relationship with the rest of the world’, created from a wide field of academic and non-academic sources, including academic experts, psychologists, behavioural scientists, sociologists, and historians from outside the Home Office.

The training material for this course includes content related to the history and legacy of decolonisation, but does not include any material focused on critical race theory, or unconscious bias. The Home Office has no plans to commission the preparation of any additional training materials in this area.

Answered by:
Dame Diana Johnson (Labour)
4 November 2024