Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much funding has been allocated to teaching English for Speakers of Other Languages for (a) adults, (b) children (c) refugees and (d) asylum seekers in each financial year since 1997.

English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) is funded within the adult education budget (AEB). We publish provider allocations for the AEB on gov.uk at 19+ funding allocations here: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/19-funding-allocations#published-allocations. We do not allocate funding for ESOL separately within that budget.

From academic year 2019/20 part of the AEB was devolved to mayoral combined authorities and the Greater London Authority and so is not included in these published figures.

The government is also providing funding for those in the Homes for Ukraine Scheme at a rate of £10,500 per person to councils to enable them to provide support to Ukrainian families to rebuild their lives and fully integrate into communities, which is unringfenced and therefore can also be spent on ESOL. The £10,500 for Ukrainian nationals is for the first year. We will review funding for future years in due course.