Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much has been spent on what (a) media training and (b) social media training for (i) him and (ii) Ministers in his Department since May 2010.

No money has been spent on either media training or social media training for my Rt hon. Friend, the Secretary of State, her predecessor or other ministers in the Department for Education since May 2010.

The Department for Education has curbed spending on all communications activity, bringing the central costs of communication down from £54 million in the last year of the previous administration to £12 million in 2011-12, and down to under £1 million in 2013-14.