Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of of 17 January 2023 to Question 122197 on Cabinet Office: Mandarin Language, if he will make it his policy to introduce a record of the foreign language proficiency of officials in (a) his Department and (b) all Departments.

The Cabinet Office has no current plans to introduce a policy to record foreign language proficiency. Whilst we hope to make use of a future cross-Government skills platform, we do not currently have the functionality in our department to centrally record these skills. However, Government Business Service work to deliver a cross-Government skills platform has started and we would expect to capture this type of information centrally at a future date.

CSHR has no current plans to introduce a cross-department policy to record foreign language proficiency.