Departmental Languages

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport 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. (320414)

The Department for Culture, Media and Sport has not provided coaching in foreign languages to Ministers or civil servants in the Department within the last 12 months.