English for speakers of other languages, as the Member rightly identifies, is a fundamental part of being able to settle properly in a new country and actually for that new country to take proper account of your skills and your ability to contribute. As such, we have, as part of the Welsh Government's skills provision, protected ESOL funding for several years through various budgets. We also work very hard with the UK Syrian resettlement programme, for example, to make sure that English for speakers of other languages is properly distributed. But there are problems with that, and the differing levels of support for differing classes of refugees is not really helping.

We are making a lot of recommendations and are lobbying to the UK Government to make them understand the real problems that the resettlement programme sometimes has for people being disrupted in terms of their language learning. There's a whole issue as well with people who arrive in Wales who are speakers of minority languages in their own country. So, for example, if Britain were to have the misfortune of being a war zone and we were all escaping, then those of us who speak Welsh as a first language would struggle even more to acquire the language of the country that we arrived in than those of us who speak English. Those things are really important to take into account, when we design these programmes.

We also have a huge problem where we don't have a tapering provision, and so those people who have a basic grasp of English are often in the same class as people who don't have any grasp of English, and those people who might be heading towards employment are also in that class, and also no provision for people coming in at the bottom either, as there's nowhere for people to to proceed to. So, a large amount of work needs to be done here. A large amount of funding also needs to be attracted by that, and we will be lobbying heavily the UK Government to step up to the mark in terms of funding some of those resettlement programmes.