Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many awaydays his Department has held for officials in (a) 2013 and (b) 2014 to date; and what the cost was of each such event.
The Department is committed to developing its staff and equipping them with the skills and knowledge to carry out their work. Awaydays and other similiar team based development activities make a contribution to such development.
This type of development activity is typically arranged by individual teams in the Department. No central records of these events are kept, so to collect this information from the Department’s directorates would incur disproportionate costs.