Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to his written ministerial statement of 26 October 2026 on the National School of Government and Public Services, how much was spent across government on externally provided learning and development for civil servants in each of the last three financial years.

The Cabinet Office manages two central Learning Frameworks contracts through which departments can procure specialist external learning and development services. The spend through these contracts over the last three financial years was:

Please note that this information relates to the expenditure through the Cabinet Office-owned central contracts, it does not cover all civil service learning and development expenditure across departments.