HC Deb 14 July 2003 vol 409 c19W
Mr. Flight

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what the cost was to her Department of media and voice training for Ministers and officials in each year since 1997. [123138]

Ms Hewitt

There has been no cost to the Department for media and voice training for Ministers since 1997.

For DTI officials, the majority of the Department's training budget is allocated to individual Directorates. Each Directorate has responsibility for managing, monitoring and evaluating at training events in line with the Departmental business and training plans. Disproportionate costs would be incurred to collate the data centrally for the purposes of answering this question.