Andrew Gwynne – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Andrew Gwynne on 2016-02-02.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the cost was of residential training for officials in his Department in each of the last five years.

Jane Ellison

The Department is committed to developing its staff and equipping them with the skills and knowledge to carry out their work.

In 2011, the Department became a full subscriber to Civil Service Learning (CSL). CSL is responsible for providing a managed service for all learning and development across the Civil Service.

Learning and development activity is typically arranged by individual teams or individuals in the Department.

Therefore, no central records of these events are kept. To collect this information from the Department’s directorates and match this with CSL data would incur disproportionate costs.