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Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Training

Asked by Mike WoodConservativeForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled Answered 6 November 2025UIN 86242

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how much her Department has spent on external training courses involving actors since July 2024.

Answered by Seema Malhotra

Data on external training involving actors is not tracked separately and is spread across various expense codes and expenditure types. Isolating this would require manual review of large volumes of data, making it impractical to extract reliably without disproportionate effort and cost.

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