Speeches

Pamela Nash – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Pamela Nash on 2015-01-14.

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how much his Department spent on (a) recruitment agency fees, (b) outplacement agency fees for displaced or redundant staff and (c) staff training in each of the last five years.

Jo Swinson

The majority of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) training budget is delegated to the individual business units. This enables them to target resources to their learning priorities. BIS does not centrally collate details of individual course attendances.

The spend on training in core BIS in the last five years is

Year

Spend

£

2010/11

2,340,575

2011/12

2,662,967

2012/13

2,070,999

2013/14

1,840,850

2014/15 (figure as at end November 2014)

1,000,995

We are unable to provide details of spend in relation to parts (a) and (b). The information is not held against discrete finance headings and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.