To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what training courses have been attended by special advisers in his Department in the last 12 months; and at what cost. (279397)

Special advisers in the Home Department attended no training courses in the last 12 months. They did not need to.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many of his Department's overseas staff have been on training courses in each overseas country in each of the last five years. (282947)

Data are not collected centrally on the number of Home Office staff who have attended training courses abroad in the last five years, and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.