Written Question·Department for Education·UIN 31577

Children: English Language

Tabled: 13 February 2025
Answered: 28 February 2025

Question

Rupert Lowe

Restore Britain — Great Yarmouth

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an estimate of the number of children who do not speak English as a first language.

Answer

Catherine McKinnell
The department publishes information on whether a pupil’s first language is known or believed to be other than English. This data can be found in the ‘Schools, pupils and their characteristics’ publication, which is based on the January school census. The...
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