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Sign Language

Question for Department for Work and Pensions

UIN HL7782, tabled on 10 May 2018

To ask Her Majesty's Government how many (1) registered sign language interpreters, and (2) sign language users, there are in the UK.

Answered on

22 May 2018

Currently there are 908 registered sign language interpreters, and 234 trainee interpreters.

It is estimated there are currently at least 24,000 people in the UK for whom British Sign Language (BSL) is their first language.