14. To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what resources are being made available to local education authorities in (a) England and (b) Northamptonshire to teach immigrant children whose first language is not English. (102297)

£435 million of the £24.6 billion Schools Formula Spending Share for 2005-06 was distributed on the basis of numbers of children from underachieving ethnic minority groups and for those pupils for whom English is an additional language. Northamptonshire’s 2005-06 SFSS was £312.4 million, of which £2.5 million was distributed on the basis of these two groups.

The Dedicated Schools Grant allocations for 2007-08 will depend on January 2007 school census data.

The Ethnic Minority Achievement Grant provides additional support for these two groups. The total for 2007-08 is £179 million and Northamptonshire will receive £619,488.