Asylum: English Language

(asked on 10th October 2025) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

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.


Answered by
Mike Tapp Portrait
Mike Tapp
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)
This question was answered on 30th October 2025

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

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