Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has made a recent estimate of how many primary school children in England were born overseas.

The information requested is not held by the department. The department publishes information on ethnicity and whether a pupil is known to speak English as a first language or not. This information can be found in the ‘Schools, pupils and their characteristics’ publication, which is based on January school census data. The most recently published figures can be accessed at: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-pupils-and-their-characteristics. Neither ethnicity nor language can be used as a proxy to determine whether a pupil was born overseas.