Chi Onwurah – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Transport

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Chi Onwurah on 2015-02-12.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the average number of days training of full-time equivalent staff employed in his Department was in each of the last three financial years.

Claire Perry

The Department for Transport encourages staff to take full advantage of the wide range of development available and to undertake at least five days a year of development.

Staff in the Department has undertaken the average number of day’s formal development over the last three financial years:

· 2013-14 – 4.5 days

· 2012-13 – 3.5 days

· 2011-12 – 4 days

In addition to this, staff have engaged in a good deal of informal development which is not easy to capture for example on the job training, coaching and mentoring.