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Social Security Benefits: English Language

Department for Work and Pensions written question – answered at on 5 November 2025.

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Photo of Rupert Lowe Rupert Lowe Independent, Great Yarmouth

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 27 October 2025 to question 82834 on Social Security Benefits: English Language, how many claimants have been required to attend English language courses as a work preparation activity in each of the last five years.

Photo of Andrew Western Andrew Western The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Work and Pensions

The information requested is not held centrally and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.

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  • (Citation: HC Deb, 5 November 2025, cW)

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