Written Question·Home Office·UIN 79796

Asylum: English Language

Tabled: 10 October 2025
Answered: 30 October 2025

Question

Blake Stephenson

ConservativeMid Bedfordshire

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an estimate of the number and proportion of visa holders who were granted a visa who did not have basic proficiency in English on entry in each of the last five years.

Answer

Mike Tapp
No such estimate has been made of the number of visa holders who did not have basic proficiency in English on entry.