To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how much (a) his Department and (b) its agencies spent on training courses for staff in the last (i) 12 months and (ii) five years. (210559)

We do not have a historic record of spend on training for the last five years, however DEFRA had a corporate learning and development budget of £1.2 million last year. DEFRA does not hold information centrally on what its agencies spent on training courses.