Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much her Department has spent on programmes for the teaching of English to (a) primary and (b) secondary school students who do not speak English as a first language in each of the last five academic years.

The Department for Education does not allocate specific funding for the teaching of English to pupils with English as an additional language (EAL). The funding arrangements enable local authorities to allocate a proportion of their funding to schools on the basis of local need, including by the number of their pupils with EAL to support their overall education. The per-pupil rate for this funding is decided locally and can therefore reflect local circumstances.