Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, which companies were contracted by his Department to provide training for prison staff in 2017; and how much his Department paid to each of those companies for such training.

Training across HMPPS and the prison estate is requested and supplied on a bespoke basis and tendered accordingly with providers

Spend figures for Learning and Development (L&D) across the Prison Estate are presented as a singular amount. The cost data cannot be split out from total L&D into Prison Staff L&D only.

To provide the information requested, the Ministry of Justice would need to manually check each requisition submitted in 2017 to identify the type of training provided and the cost. The information requested could therefore only be obtained at disproportionate cost.