Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what professional development courses are made available to staff of his Department; and what the cost to the public purse is of each such course.

Professional development, in the form of formal learning, is available to all members of staff within the Ministry of Justice and processes are in place to ensure that where there is a business and development need learning can be accessed. There are currently 22 professions across the civil service and each will have their own framework of qualifications.

In order to answer the question in detail we will need to contact every profession, request the framework and then identify the costs for each qualification. In addition we will need to interrogate the Civil Service Learning portal to identify each professions qualifications and costs. This information is not readily available and is not held centrally and therefore would incur disproportionate cost to obtain.