Question to the Department for International Trade:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what is their assessment of the value of a language skills audit across the civil service to the potential recruitment of any additional trade experts needed post-Brexit.

The Department encourages its civil servants to expand and develop their language skills, including those who will be involved in Free Trade Agreement negotiations. The department currently has twenty four designated language roles overseas. The Department has no current plans to undertake a language skills audit across the Civil Service in order to support the potential recruitment of any additional trade experts post-Brexit.