Business, Innovation and Skills written question – answered at on 16 March 2011.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills how many and what proportion of learners in receipt of fee remission for English for Speakers of Other Languages courses are in receipt of benefits.
holding answer
Near-final data for 2009/10 shows that 116,600 adults that participated on an English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) course were in receipt of fee remission. Of these, 71,200 learners (61%) received fee remission as they were in receipt of benefits.
We do not directly record in the system what type of benefits people are receiving when they take up training. We do, however, collect information on why a learner has received fee remission for any learning they undertake. From this data we can provide some information on claimants but this should be used with caution given it neither provides an accurate picture about the level of learners who are also benefit claimants nor what other learning and or benefit entitlements that person might also have.
Information on participation on ESOL courses is published in a quarterly statistical first release (SFR). The latest SFR was published on
http://www.thedataservice.org.uk/statistics/statisticalfirstrelease/sfr_current
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