Languages
(asked on 6th December 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much his Department spent on programmes which promote the use of the (a) Cornish and (b) English language in each year since 2008-09.
The Department’s spend is set out below.
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| 2009/10 (£000s) | 2010/11(£000s) | 2011/12(£000s) | 2012/13 (£000s) | 2013/14 (£000s) | 2014/15 (£000s) | 2015/16 (£000s) | Total (£000s) |
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Cornish Language | 150 | 150 | 150 | 140 | 140 | 100 | 120 | 150 | 1,100 |
DCLG funding for ESOL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3,986 | 4,144 | 2,136 | 3,658 | 2,528 | 16,452 |
In addition, the Government spent over £100 million in 2014-15 on English for Speakers of Other Languages training.