§ Mr. BercowTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if she will list the(a) conferences, (b) seminars, (c) workshops, (d) exhibitions and (e) press conferences which have been sponsored by her Department and which took place on non-departmental premises in each of the last four years giving the title, purpose, date and cost of each. [34298]
§ Mr. Ivan LewisWe organise a large number of events for different target audiences and purposes each year, ranging from small-scale workshops to introduce practitioners to new procedures or initiatives, to larger-scale events to promote policy initiatives or present the bigger picture of the Department's activities to external partners.
Examples of these range from the Early Years Development and Childcare Partnership roadshows—a series of local seminars organised annually in the autumn for LEAs and child care providers to share best practice—to the conferences held with LEAs and teachers in autumn 2001 on the proposals set out in the White Paper "Schools: achieving success".
To give details of every event held over the last four years would be possible only at disproportionate cost.