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Dept for Constitutional Affairs

Answer

Charles Hendry: To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Department for Constitutional Affairs what the (a) cost to the Department, (b) title and (c) location was of each training course organised by his Department for its staff in each financial year since 1997-98. [200329] Mr. Lammy: My Department is unable to provide a full reply to this question without incurring disproportionate cost. My Department uses the services of external training providers on occasions when there is a training need that cannot be met by the in-house training function, or when there is a specialist training need for which it would not be cost-effective to develop in-house training. We are able to provide a single, overall, expenditure figure for each financial year since 1998-99 (my Department's accounting systems changed during 1997-98) for external training organised for my Department (and LCD) staff in the following table. These figures include courses organised by all parts of the Department. Total expenditure figures for external training1 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Financial year Total amount (£) 1998-99 919,389 1999-2000 700,288 2000-01 1,661,185 2001-02 1,595,018 2002-03 2,043,701 2003-04 2,916,160 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. 1 Taken from the DCA's Operating Cost Statements, showing amounts accounted for, for all external training where VAT has been charged.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

200329; 428 c565W;428 c565-6W

Session

2004-05

Subjects

Costs Government departments Location Training Department for Constitutional Affairs

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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