Speeches

Kevan Jones – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Defence

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Kevan Jones on 2016-07-21.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what his Department’s planned expenditure is on language training in each year to 2020.

Mark Lancaster

The following table highlights the projected expenditure by financial year (FY), for the delivery of language training by the Defence Academy (DA) (part of Joint Force Command) and the Army, broken down by ‘Foreign Language Training’ (FLT) and ‘English Language Training’ (ELT).

FY 2017-18

FY 2018-19

FY2019-20

FY 2020-21

Total

DA FLT

£2,124,453.00

£2,161,942.00

£2,211,652.00

£2,260,694.00

£8,758,741.00

Army FLT

£1,000,000.00

£1,000,000.00

£1,000,000.00

£1,000,000.00

£4,000,000.00

Army ELT

£18,000.00

£18,000.00

£18,000.00

£18,000.00

£72,000.00