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Written question asked by Gordon Marsden (Labour) on Wednesday, 13 July 2016, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 18 July 2016 (named day). It was answered by Nick Gibb (Conservative) on Wednesday, 27 July 2016 on behalf of the Department for Education.


Languages: Education

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the oral contribution of the Minister of State for Schools of 4 July 2016, Official Report, column 210WH, what the evidential basis is for the statement that 77 per cent of UK employees say that they need more employees with foreign languages.

Answer

The figure to which I referred on 4 July was derived from a survey by the Confederation of British Industry’s Education and Skills Survey 2015[1] which found that only 23% of businesses said they had no need for foreign language skills among their employees.

[1] http://news.cbi.org.uk/reports/education-and-skills-survey-2015/


Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
42754
Session
2016-17
Related items
EBacc: Expressive Arts Subjects
Monday, 4 July 2016
Proceeding contributions
House of Commons
Subjects
Employment Education Languages
Link
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