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<p>We have deemed language specialist to be a service person holding an in date formal
MOD language assessment of Level 2 and above (even if not actively using the language
day to day), and any civil servant (Burnham Lecturer) or military person employed
in teaching languages to defence personnel on an ongoing permanent basis or supporting
operations.</p><p> </p><p>Detailed historical data on those personnel ‘in date’ before
2018 is unavailable, we only know the number of exams that were passed in the respective
years going back to 2012. We have not included those for the purposes of this answer.
The information available is in the following table:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>
</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Serial</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Language</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Numbers
'in date'<br> (Jan 24)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Numbers 'in date'<br> (Jan
23)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Numbers 'in date'<br> (Jan 22)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Numbers
'in date'<br> (Sep 21)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Numbers 'in date'<br> (Dec
19)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Numbers 'in date'<br> (Sep 18)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>1</strong></p></td><td><p>Russian</p></td><td><p>163</p></td><td><p>155</p></td><td><p>111</p></td><td><p>106</p></td><td><p>80</p></td><td><p>81</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2</strong></p></td><td><p>Arabic</p></td><td><p>99</p></td><td><p>117</p></td><td><p>121</p></td><td><p>132</p></td><td><p>187</p></td><td><p>196</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>3</strong></p></td><td><p>Farsi</p></td><td><p>38</p></td><td><p>42</p></td><td><p>38</p></td><td><p>40</p></td><td><p>21</p></td><td><p>24</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>4</strong></p></td><td><p>Mandarin</p></td><td><p>15</p></td><td><p>22</p></td><td><p>18</p></td><td><p>22</p></td><td><p>12</p></td><td><p>12</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>5</strong></p></td><td><p>Cantonese</p></td><td><p>9</p></td><td><p>With
Mandarin as Chinese to mid 23</p></td><td><p>Counted with Mandarin</p></td><td><p>Counted
with Mandarin</p></td><td><p>Counted with Mandarin</p></td><td><p>Counted with Mandarin</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>6</strong></p></td><td><p>Dari/Pashtu</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>16</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>8</p></td><td><p>9</p></td><td><p>13</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>
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