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English Language: Primary Education

Volume 489: debated on Tuesday 10 March 2009

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what estimate his Department has made of the percentage of children entering primary school for whom English will be a second or other language in each of the next five years. (255721)

Such estimates are not available.

The latest information about the number of pupils whose first language is known or believed to be other than English were published as table B10 in a statistical first release at:

http://www.dcsf.gov.uk/rsgateway/DB/SFR/s000786/index.shtml