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Departmental Higher Education

Volume 486: debated on Thursday 15 January 2009

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many staff in his Department undertook courses funded by the Department for (a) undergraduate degrees, (b) postgraduate degrees or diplomas, (c) Masters degrees, (d) MBA degrees and (e) PhD degrees in the last 12 months, broken down by pay band. (242137)

In 2008, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office human resources directorate provided funding for:

(a) Three members of staff at band A, seven members of staff at band B, one member of staff at C4, one member of staff at band D6 and two members of staff at band D7 to study for an undergraduate degree;

(b) 18 members of staff at band B3, 12 members of staff at band C4, one member of staff at band C5, five members of staff in band D6, two at band D7 and one senior management officer to study postgraduate diplomas;

(c) two members of staff at band C4 to study masters degrees;

(d) three members of staff at band B3, five members of staff at band C4, four members of staff at band C5, 17 members of staff in band D6 , to study MBAs

(e) no members of staff to study PHDs.

In addition, it is possible that other directorates in the FCO have funded members of staff to complete courses relating to a specialist area, however we do not keep figures on this and gathering the information would incur disproportionate cost.