Written Question·Department for Education·UIN 73668

Pupils: English Language

Tabled: 1 September 2025
Answered: 30 October 2025

Question

Lee Anderson

Reform UK — Ashfield

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

Georgia Gould
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...
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