Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what steps he plans to take to promote the integration into UK society of Pakistani women who are not able to speak English and who do not go out to work.

Since 2013, my department has invested £12 million to support 54,000 isolated adults to learn English in community settings, with a specific focus on women with the lowest levels of English who are economically inactive. The forthcoming integration strategy will set out how we will support people in more isolated communities to engage with the wider world, help women in particular into the workplace, and teach more people to speak English.