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Languages

Volume 508: debated on Thursday 25 March 2010

To ask the Minister of State, Department 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. (320536)

No 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 for Transport and its agencies who have received coaching in a Foreign Language:

Foreign Language(s)

Number of civil servants receiving foreign language coaching

Expenditure incurred

Chinese, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, BSL and Welsh

13

1,304