Teh One Who Knocks
07-10-2015, 11:18 AM
By Ashley Kirk, and John Bingham - The Telegraph
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Almost a million people living in Britain can barely communicate in English, new analysis of the UK census suggests.
In some areas almost one in 10 residents admit they cannot speak English well or at all, effectively excluding them from jobs and integration in the wider community and increasing their chances of being in poor health.
The problem is heavily concentrated in a string of inner-city language black-spots in London as well as places such as Leicester.
The figures, set out in an official language map of England and Wales, will lead to warnings that large scale immigration is allowing linguistic ghettos to develop in parts of the UK despite the Government’s drive to promote so-called “British values”.
Other than English, the most common languages were Polish, Panjabi and Urdu. Over 500,000 people spoke Polish, while over a quarter of a million spoke Panjabi.
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Overall, the census found that around 863,000 people in England and Wales – about one in 50 of the population – admitted on the 2011 census form that they could not speak English well or at all.
But in a string of areas between 20 and 25 per cent of all families do not have anyone who regularly speaks the language while in others only the children do so.
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In most local authority areas only about one per cent of the population do not have an effective command of English but in a handful of areas the rate is about nine per cent of the population.
In Newham, east London, often cited as the UK’s most ethnically diverse area, the rate was 8.7 per cent while in the boroughs of Brent and Tower Hamlets, also in the capital, it stands at eight per cent, just ahead of Leicester where it is 7.5 per cent.
In most local authority areas only about one per cent of the population do not have an effective command of English but in a handful of areas the rate is about nine per cent of the population.
In Newham, east London, often cited as the UK’s most ethnically diverse area, the rate was 8.7 per cent while in the boroughs of Brent and Tower Hamlets, also in the capital, it stands at eight per cent, just ahead of Leicester where it is 7.5 per cent.
http://i.imgur.com/Pu2Ghgm.png
Almost a million people living in Britain can barely communicate in English, new analysis of the UK census suggests.
In some areas almost one in 10 residents admit they cannot speak English well or at all, effectively excluding them from jobs and integration in the wider community and increasing their chances of being in poor health.
The problem is heavily concentrated in a string of inner-city language black-spots in London as well as places such as Leicester.
The figures, set out in an official language map of England and Wales, will lead to warnings that large scale immigration is allowing linguistic ghettos to develop in parts of the UK despite the Government’s drive to promote so-called “British values”.
Other than English, the most common languages were Polish, Panjabi and Urdu. Over 500,000 people spoke Polish, while over a quarter of a million spoke Panjabi.
http://i.imgur.com/iqtldsT.png
Overall, the census found that around 863,000 people in England and Wales – about one in 50 of the population – admitted on the 2011 census form that they could not speak English well or at all.
But in a string of areas between 20 and 25 per cent of all families do not have anyone who regularly speaks the language while in others only the children do so.
http://i.imgur.com/ikd0Q1L.png
In most local authority areas only about one per cent of the population do not have an effective command of English but in a handful of areas the rate is about nine per cent of the population.
In Newham, east London, often cited as the UK’s most ethnically diverse area, the rate was 8.7 per cent while in the boroughs of Brent and Tower Hamlets, also in the capital, it stands at eight per cent, just ahead of Leicester where it is 7.5 per cent.
In most local authority areas only about one per cent of the population do not have an effective command of English but in a handful of areas the rate is about nine per cent of the population.
In Newham, east London, often cited as the UK’s most ethnically diverse area, the rate was 8.7 per cent while in the boroughs of Brent and Tower Hamlets, also in the capital, it stands at eight per cent, just ahead of Leicester where it is 7.5 per cent.