Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 16 July 2014, Official Report, column 710W, on training, in which the Minister indicated that Ministers had received £3,000 worth of media training, which company provided media training in June 2010; what the nature of this training was; and which ministers received such training.

The media training was provided by the Chartered Institute of Public Relations in June 2010 to Crispin Blunt, Lord McNally and Jonathan Djanogly, who were Ministers in the Department at the time.

There is a high-level of interest in the work of the Ministry of Justice and this training was designed to aid Ministers to convey the work of the Department to the public and to clearly explain the reforms being undertaken across their policy areas.

There has been no spending on external media training since then.