March 19, 2009
Research conducted by think-tank Migrationwatch shows that the amounts raised by the “migrant tax” are paltry compared with the significant amounts spent on government programmes specifically to help migrants.Name of fund/area of funding |
Department | Amount | Description |
ESOL | DIUS | £289m (2006/7) | Funding for English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) training. |
Ethnic Minority Achievement Grant | DCSF | £187.6m (2008-9) | For schools working with English as an Additional Language. |
Cohesion | CLG | £50m (over three years) - £16.6m per year. | £50million over the next three years to support local areas in preventing and managing community tensions. This comprises: £34million in area based grant; £3million to support the National Improvement and Efficiency Strategy to develop regional and local capacity to meet community cohesion challenges; £4.5 million to help schools and others offer positive activities for young people with a focus on community cohesion; and £7.5 million to support inter-faith work. |
Connecting Communities Plus grants programme | CLG |
£18m (over three years - £6m per year) | Funding for activities which encourage race equality and community cohesion. |
Migration Statistics Improvement Programme | Cross-departmental | £12m | £12 million cross-government programme led by ONS and the National Statistician to improve the population and migration statistics, including those at the local level. Will deliver improved local estimates and projections by 2010, in time to calculate the next three year local government finance settlement from 2011-12. |
Exceptional Circumstances Grant | DCSF | £6m (2008/9) | To support schools with a rapid growth in pupil numbers and/or increase in pupils who have English as an Additional Language. |
Rough sleepers (London Boroughs) | CLG | £600,000 | For central London Boroughs for their work with EEA nationals who are rough sleepers. |
Total | £517.8m | Per year |