Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will take steps to ensure that 16 to 18 year olds are eligible to benefit from the additional £10 million funding for English language teaching for resettled (a) Syrian and (b) other Vulnerable Children's Resettlement Scheme refugees.

The additional £10 million funding package for those arriving under the Syrian Vulnerable Persons Resettlement (VPR) and Vulnerable Children’s Resettlement (VCR) Schemes is for adults only (age 19+). This funding is coming jointly from the Department for Education’s (DfE) Adult Education budget and from the Syrian Resettlement Programme budget.