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Mr. Flight
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what the cost was to his Department of media and voice training for ministers and officials in each year since 1997. [123132]
Mr. Mike O'Brien
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office has spent a total of £405,664 on media and voice training from April 1997 to end March 2003. The training was for officials only.The table as follows shows expenditure per annum.
| £ | |
| Year | Amount |
| 1997–98 | 59,732 |
| 1998–99 | 59,732 |
| 1999–2000 | 15,705 |
| 2000–01 | 96,941 |
| 2001–02 | 101,523 |
| 2002–03 | 109,193 |
| Total | 405,664 |