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529287

	registered interest
	date	28/06/2016
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Migration
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when his Department plans to publish its most recent data on migration to and from the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Romford
	tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
	uin	41395
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2016 answer text <p>The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 19/07/2016 06:48:33 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore attachment 1 file name UKSA response to 41395 .pdf title UKSA Letter to Member - Data on Migration
	tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1126943

	registered interest
	date	15/05/2019
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	hansard heading	Greenhouse Gas Emissions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps the Government is taking to reduce greenhouses gases to zero by 2050.
	tabling member constituency	Romford
	tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
	uin	254767
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2019 answer text <p>The Government is convinced of the need for urgent action on climate change, which is why we asked the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) for advice last October on the implications of the Paris Agreement for the UK’s long-term emissions reduction targets, including on setting a net zero target.</p><p> </p><p>The CCC published their advice to Government on 2 May 2019. It sets out a path for the UK to become the first major economy to legislate to end our contribution to global warming entirely. We are studying the CCC’s comprehensive, ground-breaking report, and are committed to responding in due course.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 21/05/2019 14:55:14 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
	tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1060044

	registered interest
	date	12/02/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Overseas Students: EU Nationals
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure British universities attract EU students after the UK leaves the EU.
	tabling member constituency	Romford
	tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
	uin	220125
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2019 answer text <p>The UK remains a highly attractive destination for both EU and non-EU students, with their numbers remaining at a record high. The total number of international students (EU and non-EU) studying in the UK has increased from 442,000 in 2016/17 to 458,000 in 2017/18.</p><p>The government fully recognises the important economic and cultural contribution that EU and international students make to the UK’s higher education sector. We want that contribution to continue and we are confident – given the world-class quality of our higher education sector – that it will. We welcome international students and there continues to be no limit on the number who can come here to study, nor any plans to limit any institution’s ability to recruit them.</p><p>That is why the government announced on 21 January that an international education strategy will be produced by the Department for Education and the Department for International Trade in 2019. The strategy will set out the government’s ambition for international education, in which international students play a key role, and plans to support the sector in driving growth in education exports.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 20/02/2019 16:59:10 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
	tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1081925

	registered interest
	date	04/03/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Educational Institutions: Freedom of Expression
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to ensure the maintenance of freedom of expression in publicly funded educational establishments.
	tabling member constituency	Romford
	tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
	uin	227978
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2019 answer text <p>Free speech plays a vital and important role in our society, and universities should be places where students are exposed to a range of issues, however controversial, and are encouraged to debate and challenge them.</p><p> </p><p>The government, with the support of key stakeholders in the higher education sector, has worked alongside the Equalities and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) to produce the recently published Freedom of Expression guidance. This guidance can be found at: <a href="https://www.equalityhumanrights.com/sites/default/files/20150318_foe_legal_framework_guidance_revised_final.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.equalityhumanrights.com/sites/default/files/20150318_foe_legal_framework_guidance_revised_final.pdf</a>. The guidance will enable universities and student unions to understand their obligations for protecting and supporting free speech. The EHRC will continue to maintain this guidance to ensure it remains relevant and accessible to the whole sector.</p><p> </p><p>The Office for Students (OfS) will also have an important role to play in championing free speech and promoting good practice. A new public interest principle relating to free speech has been built into the OfS regulatory framework.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 12/03/2019 17:54:42 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
	tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1134930

	registered interest
	date	26/06/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Plagiarism: Universities
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to help tackle plagiarism among students at university.
	tabling member constituency	Romford
	tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
	uin	269680
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/07/2019 answer text <p>The government has been clear that the Office for Students (OfS) should take firm and robust action to ensure that threats to academic integrity are tackled. We are determined to beat the cheats who threaten the integrity of our higher education (HE) system.</p><p> </p><p>The OfS requires HE providers to design courses that enable the reliable assessment of a student’s genuine achievements. Students are nearly always obligated by their provider to sign a ‘student contract’ at the commencement of their studies. The contract sets out acceptable student behaviours. Many contracts contain a reference to plagiarism and academic fraud. Many also set out possible sanctions that students may face if they are found to have broken the contract.</p><p> </p><p>As independent and autonomous bodies, HE providers have discretion when imposing sanctions, provided that those sanctions are authorised by the contract. The most recent guidance from the Quality Assurance Agency highlights the importance of severe sanctions of suspension or expulsion if ‘extremely serious academic misconduct’ has been discovered.</p><p> </p><p>HE providers' approaches to tackling cheating include deduction of marks, no credit for the work in question, permanent exclusion for a second offence or immediate expulsion depending on seriousness.</p><p> </p><p>In March, the government challenged PayPal to stop processing payments for ‘essay mills’. PayPal is now working with businesses associated with essay-writing services to ensure its platform is not used to facilitate deceptive and fraudulent practices in education.</p><p> </p><p>Furthermore, our recently published Education Technology Strategy challenged technology companies to identify how anti-cheating software can tackle the growth of essay mills and stay one step ahead of the cheats. This publication can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/realising-the-potential-of-technology-in-education" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/realising-the-potential-of-technology-in-education</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 05/07/2019 10:42:56 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
	tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1173038

	registered interest
	date	23/01/2020
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Overseas Students: Commonwealth
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many university places were allocated to non-British Commonwealth citizens in each year from 2015 to 2019.
	tabling member constituency	Romford
	tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
	uin	7135
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2020 answer text <p>Information on students at UK higher education institutions (HEIs) is collected and published by the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA). More information is available at: <a href="https://www.hesa.ac.uk" target="_blank">https://www.hesa.ac.uk</a>.</p><p>The number of higher education entrants to UK HEIs from Commonwealth countries has been provided in the table.</p><p>A list of countries that are currently in the Commonwealth can be found here: <a href="https://thecommonwealth.org/member-countries/all" target="_blank">https://thecommonwealth.org/member-countries/all</a>.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Entrants to all levels of higher education by domicile prior to study </strong></p><p><strong>UK Higher Education Institutions</strong></p><p><strong>Academic years 2014/15 to 2018/19 </strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="5"><p><strong>Academic year</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Domicile</strong><sup>1</sup></p></td><td><p><strong>2014/15</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2015/16 </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2016/17</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2017/18</strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>2018/19</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>UK</p></td><td><p>756,505</p></td><td><p>761,005</p></td><td><p>778,115</p></td><td><p>775,660</p></td><td><p>780,105</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other Commonwealth<sup>2</sup></p></td><td><p>51,405</p></td><td><p>46,750</p></td><td><p>43,420</p></td><td><p>46,115</p></td><td><p>52,235</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Non-Commonwealth</p></td><td><p>180,890</p></td><td><p>184,670</p></td><td><p>191,950</p></td><td><p>201,585</p></td><td><p>215,285</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>988,800</p></td><td><p>992,425</p></td><td><p>1,013,485</p></td><td><p>1,023,360</p></td><td><p>1,047,630</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Source:</p><p>DfE analysis of the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) Student Record</p><p>Notes:</p><p>Numbers are rounded to the nearest 5, so components may not sum to totals</p><p><sup>1 </sup>Domicile refers to country of student’s permanent address prior to entry</p><p><sup>2</sup> Commonwealth member countries as at 27 January 2020</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 31/01/2020 14:02:38 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
	tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell