Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how much his Department spent on security and hostile environment training in each year since 2010.

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office provides a wide range of security courses. Most are conducted in-house. A three-day Security Awareness in Fragile Environments (SAFE) residential training course, with an additional one-day SAFE+ Close Protection module, is provided by an external contractor.

Costs for all security and hostile environment training were as follows:

2010/11 : £414,028.32
2011/12 : £500,164.52
2012/13 : £484,826.55
2013/14 : £535,437.82