Question follow-through · 59060

Migrants: English Language

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate he has made of the proportion of adult migrants resident in the UK for over five years who are proficient in (a) spoken and (b) written English.

answeredCabinet Office

About this written question

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Answering body
Cabinet Office
Tabled
11 Jun 2025
Target answer date
13 Jun 2025
Answer
19 Jun 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.

Recorded timeline

  1. 11 Jun 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate he has made of the proportion of adult migrants resident in the UK for over five years who are proficient in (a) spoken and (b) written English.

  2. 13 Jun 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 19 Jun 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 11th June is attached.

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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