§ Mr. BercowTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how much the Department has spent on staff training and development in each of the last five years. [61052]
§ Mr. Stephen TwiggThe Department for Education and Skills is responsible for encouraging and supporting learning and development throughout the UK. It has set itself the objective of becoming an exemplar learning organisation. To this end it has established leading edge e-learning facilities and continues to develop this and other learning solutions for its staff.
As currently constituted, the Department is barely one year old, following a Machinery of Government change. The figures for 1997–98 to 1999–2000 below relate to the Department for Education and Employment. Figures for 2000–01 and 2001–02 have been adjusted to reflect the Department's current responsibilities.
As a percentage of all staff costs the figures are:
Year 1997–98 1.5 1998–99 1.5 1999–2000 2.0 2000–01 11.8 2001–02 12.6 Estimated These figures represent the more formal aspects of learning and development. They do not, for example, 907W capture such areas as coaching by line managers, interchange, secondment, mentoring and self-managed learning.