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Written Question
Census: Languages
Tuesday 6th December 2022

Asked by: Tom Hunt (Conservative - Ipswich)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment his Department has made on the potential merits of the inclusion of statistics on Kannada speakers in census releases from the Office for National Statistics.

Answered by Jeremy Quin

The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority.

A response to the Hon. Member's Parliamentary Question on 1 December is attached.

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