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Multi-Lingual Staff

Volume 165: debated on Tuesday 16 January 1990

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To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many staff at his Department's offices in (a) Doncaster and (b) Mexborough, speak (i) Urdu, (ii) Punjabi, (iii) Bengali, including the Sylheti dialect, (iv) Chinese, (v) Farsi, (vi) Hindi, and (vii) Gujerati.

None of the Employment Department's staff in the jobcentres and unemployment benefit offices in Doncaster and Mexborough speaks any of the languages or dialects referred to.