§ Mr. FlightTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the cost was to his Department of media and voice training for ministers and officials in each year since 1997. [123131]
§ Fiona MactaggartMedia training is available to Ministers and given to selected officials, mainly Prison Service Media Liaison Officers, immigration officers and senior appointees.
No Ministers or officials have been on training courses exclusively for the purpose of voice training. However one minor element of the Government's Centre for Management and Policy Studies' (CMPS) Creating Personal Impact course attended by senior officials does include an introduction to effective use of the voice. It is not possible to break down the cost of this element but since 1997 costs associated with the whole course total around £5,000.
Details and costs of all individual training courses are not held centrally and could be collated only at disproportionate cost.