Written Question·Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government·UIN 78230

Ethnic Groups: English Language

Tabled: 10 October 2025
Answered: 22 October 2025

Question

Sir James Cleverly

Conservative — Braintree

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment his Department has made of the level of English language proficiency by women from an ethnic minority background; and whether he has had discussions with the Secr

Answer

Alison McGovern
Data on English language proficiency falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority. The Census 2021 provides datasets detailing population and proficiency in English. These datasets can be downloaded from nomis. Nomis is a service run on behalf of ...
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