To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many (a) Ministers and (b) civil servants in his Department received coaching in a foreign language in the last 12 months; what expenditure his Department incurred in providing such coaching; and in what languages such coaching was provided. (248073)

The central Department and its agencies recorded no instances where Ministers have received coaching in a foreign language in the last 12 months.

The following table provides a break down of civil servants within the Department and its agencies who have received coaching in a foreign language.