Departmental Training

Mr. Hands
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs with reference to the Answer of 26 November 2008, Official Report, column 1794W, on departmental training, what personal training courses at public expense other Ministers in his Department have undertaken since 1 January 2008.

Gillian Merron
As well as the training received by my right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary detailed in my reply of 26 November 2008, Official Report, column 1794W, from January to July 2008, my hon. Friend the former Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, received training in the Spanish language.

No personal training courses have been undertaken by the other Ministers in this Department since 1 January 2008.