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Department for Work and Pensions: Training

Asked by Sir John HayesConservativeDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled Answered 21 May 2026UIN 1654

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will publish a list of training programmes used by civil servants in his Department since 2020.

Answered by Andrew Western

The information is not held in a central, reportable format. To provide it would require multiple teams to manually search and compile records from across the department, resulting in disproportionate cost.

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