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Pupils: English Language

Commons · Question 73668 · Tabled 1 Sep 2025 · Department for Education · Official record

Answered 30 Oct 2025

Question

Asked by Lee Anderson

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an estimate of the total cost of support provided to pupils with English as an additional language in (a) primary and (b) secondary education in each of the last five years.

Answer

Answered by Georgia Gould, 30 Oct 2025

The schools national funding formula (NFF) allocates core funding to local areas for mainstream schools. The NFF includes an English as an additional language (EAL) factor. Pupils attract this funding to their school if their first language is not English...