Question follow-through · 52074
Unemployment: Foreign Nationals
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what information her Department holds on the proportion of jobseekers from overseas with limited English language skills that remain unemployed 12 months after their arrival in the UK.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Cabinet Office
- Tabled
- 13 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 15 May 2025
- Answer
- 22 May 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
13 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what information her Department holds on the proportion of jobseekers from overseas with limited English language skills that remain unemployed 12 months after their arrival in the UK.
15 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
22 May 2025
Answer published
The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority. A response to the Hon gentleman’s Parliamentary Question of 13th May is attached.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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