Written question asked by Rob Marris (Labour) on Thursday, 24 May 2007, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Thursday, 21 June 2007. It was answered by Geoffrey Hoon (Labour) on Monday, 25 June 2007 on behalf of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
Languages: Education
- Question
- To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what cost-benefit analysis was undertaken of in-house specialised high-level language teaching in relation to (a) her Department and (b) other Government departments before the decision was made to out-source the operation.
- Answer
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[holding answer 21 June 2007]: A detailed cost-benefit analysis was carried out in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) Services review, in relation to the competitiveness of FCO Services' language training for all its customers. FCO Services concluded that it would withdraw from providing these services, and the FCO decided in the light of this and its own review of the policy, that it should move to a new business model.
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- 140625; 462 c205W
- Session
- 2006-07
- Subjects
- Education Languages Foreign and Commonwealth Office
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