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

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what her Department’s training budget was in each of the last three financial years.

Mr Nick Gibb

The Department for Education holds a central training and development budget covering core education and training undertaken through Civil Service Learning. This includes development in core Civil Service skills including leadership and management, financial management and analysis. The table below shows the centrally managed budget for each of the past three financial years.

Financial Year	Budget
12/13	£700,000
13/14	£700,000
14/15	£600,000

Additionally, directorates across the Department spend an element of their budgets on training and development which varies dependant on in-year development needs. The table below shows both central training and development spend and Directorate spend for each last 3 financial years.

Financial Year	Total spend	Average number of staff (based on Full Time Equivalents)	Average spend per member of staff (based on Full Time Equivalents)
2014/15 (covering the period April to December only)	£1.3m	3353.7	£390
2013/14	£2.2m	3539.4	£620
2012/13	£3.2m	3801.1	£840

In addition to formal training, the Department for Education encourages staff to take advantage of a variety of different professional development opportunities not captured by this expenditure, including job shadowing, on-the-job training and peer mentoring.

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what his Department’s training budget was in each of the last three financial years.

Jane Ellison

Learning and development is funded from both a central departmental budget and from local directorate budgets.

The core Department’s annual central Learning and Development budget allocations for each of the last three financial years can be found in the table below.

Financial Year	Annual Learning and Development Budget £
2011-12	804,673
2012-13	950,000
2013-14	1,115,000

Directorates have discretion in how they use their local budgets to support professional and technical training according to business need. These local budgets are not ring fenced specifically and therefore have been excluded in the table above.

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how much her Department spent on training in each of the last three financial years.

Mrs Theresa Villiers

My Department’s expenditure on training in each of the last three financial years is shown below:

Financial Year	Expenditure (£)
2012/13	19,912
2013/14	31,234
2014/15 to 31 January 2015 Known committed expenditure for remainder of financial year Total	18,050 7,960 26,010

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much his Department spent on training in each of the last three financial years.

Esther McVey

Departmental expenditure on training in each of the last three financial years, for which audited accounts have been published, is shown in the table.

Training	2011/12	2012/13	2013/14
Total Spend	£6,599,138.40	£8,613,542.60	£9,421,756.17

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Chi Onwurah on 2015-02-10.

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what funding BAFTA receives from his Department and its agencies; and what diversity guidance and requirements accompany that funding.

Mr Edward Vaizey

In April 2014, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) received a grant from Innovate UK of £358,000 for a collaborative research and development project, REVQUAL. This followed an Innovate UK competition on innovation in cross-platform production in digital media, on which information is publicly available: https://interact.innovateuk.org/guidance-for-applicants.

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

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, 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.

Andrea Leadsom

The table below shows how much HM Treasury spent on training in the last six full financial years, and the training budget for each of those years.

Financial Year	Total staff training costs	Training budget
2013/14	£774,689	£1,494,452
2012/13	£656,790	£1,697,037
2011/12	£819,847	£2,147,479
2010/11	£1,169,237	£1,793,392
2009/10	£2,369,560	£2,908,638
2008/09	£2,282,714	£3,125,260

Records on number of staff training days are not held centrally and could only be provided at disproportionate costs.

HM Treasury provides guidance to staff including managers that all civil servants are entitled to a minimum of 5 days a year for learning which can include training, seminars, mentoring, and other professional and job-based development.

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

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

Mr Nick Gibb

The civil service aspiration is for five days’ training and development for each member of staff every year.

The majority of training and development is not formal training but is carried out within teams and groups and includes: research; on the job training; shadowing; mentoring; and coaching. Staff record their own personal development in line with the Department for Education’s Capability Review which is on an individual and local basis.

Information on the amount of time spent undertaking informal training is not collated centrally.

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, 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.

Dr Daniel Poulter

The Department is committed to developing its staff. Individuals and local teams arrange a variety of developmental activities, including formal training courses. The number of hours/days for each individual is not recorded centrally. To gather this information would incur disproportionate costs.

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what her Department’s training budget was in each of the last three financial years.

Mrs Theresa Villiers

My Department’s training budget in each of the last three financial years is shown below:

Year	Budget (£)
2012/13	32,000
2013/14	40,000
2014/15	40,000

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what his Department’s training budget was in each of the last three financial years.

Esther McVey

The Department does not allocate a specific budget for training.