Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to his Department’s press release of 14 March 2017, how much of the £50 million of funding allocated to support the new Integrated Communities Strategy will be used to expand English for Speakers of Other Languages teaching.

The £50 million funding over the next two years supports the priorities set out in the strategy, including investment to support a new wave of the Community-based English language, the Integration Areas programme and establishing a new Integration Innovation Fund to stimulate and test innovative approaches to promoting integration. We will announce more details of how the funding is allocated following the consultation which closes on 6 June 2018.