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An "unacceptably" high number of people in England cannot read, write and count properly, MPs have warned.
According to the BBC, the Public Accounts Committee said in 2007, 51,000 pupils left school without a GCSE of at least D-G in maths and 39,000 left without this in English.
The report into adult literacy and numeracy also warned that only one in five offenders with poor basic skills had enrolled on a course to help them.
Ministers said no other government had invested so much in basic skills.
The committee of MPs said a lack of up-to-date information about skills meant the government could not be sure its schemes to improve basic skills were working.