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1718915

registered interest
date	16/05/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Graduates
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of the report by the Migration Advisory Committee entitled Rapid review of the graduate route, published in May 2024; and whether he plans to implement each of the recommendations in full.
tabling member constituency	Lichfield
tabling member printed	Michael Fabricant
uin	26638
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2024 answer text <p>The Migration Advisory Committee's review’s findings are currently being considered very closely. The Government will respond to the MAC’s recommendations in due course.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove grouped question UIN 26639 question first answered 21/05/2024 13:39:55 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	280 label Biography information for Michael Fabricant

1718934

registered interest
date	16/05/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Graduates
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to page 64 of the Migration Advisory Committee's report entitled, Rapid Review of the Graduate Route, published on 14 May 2024, if she will take steps to implement the recommendation on establishing a mandatory registration system for international recruitment agents and subagents.
tabling member constituency	Richmond Park
tabling member printed	Sarah Olney
uin	26711
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2024 answer text <p>The Migration Advisory Committee's review’s findings are currently being considered very closely. The Government will respond to the MAC’s recommendations in due course.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove grouped question UIN 26712 question first answered 21/05/2024 14:34:40 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4591 label Biography information for Sarah Olney

1718935

registered interest
date	16/05/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Graduates
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to page 64 of the Migration Advisory Committee's report entitled, Rapid Review of the Graduate Route, published on 14 May 2024, if she will take steps to implement the recommendation on requiring universities to publish data on (a) their spend on recruitment agents and (b) the number of international students recruited through such agents.
tabling member constituency	Richmond Park
tabling member printed	Sarah Olney
uin	26712
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2024 answer text <p>The Migration Advisory Committee's review’s findings are currently being considered very closely. The Government will respond to the MAC’s recommendations in due course.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove grouped question UIN 26711 question first answered 21/05/2024 14:34:41 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4591 label Biography information for Sarah Olney

1718548

registered interest
date	15/05/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Graduates
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps he has taken to assess the potential (a) social and (b) economic impact of possible policy changes to the graduate route visa for international students; and whether his Department assesses the potential impact of such proposals at the constituency level.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle
tabling member printed	Emma Hardy
uin	26578
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2024 answer text <p>We are committed to attracting the best and brightest to study at our world-class universities, whilst maintaining the integrity of our immigration system, which is why the Home Secretary commissioned an independent review of the Graduate Route.</p><p>The MAC reported back on 14 May and the review’s findings are currently being considered very closely.</p><p>The Home Office produces impact assessments as a matter of course when policy proposals are developed.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 23/05/2024 16:37:55 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4645 label Biography information for Emma Hardy

1713999

registered interest
date	25/04/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Graduates
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government when they plan to the respond to the letter from Professor Brian Bell of the Migration Advisory Committee requesting data for a rapid review of the Graduate Route.
tabling member printed	Baroness Northover
uin	HL4106
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/05/2024 answer text <p>We provided the requested data to the Migration Advisory Committee by 26 March 2024.</p> answering member printed Lord Sharpe of Epsom question first answered 10/05/2024 11:18:52 answering member 4888 label Biography information for Lord Sharpe of Epsom
tabling member	2539 label Biography information for Baroness Northover

1712694

registered interest
date	22/04/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Graduates
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make an assessment of the implications for his policies of the letter from the Chair of the Migration Advisory Committee of 12 March 2024 on the timescales for its review of the graduate route.
tabling member constituency	Central Ayrshire
tabling member printed	Dr Philippa Whitford
uin	22959
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2024 answer text <p>It is important that we have clarity on the use of the Graduate route in a timely manner, which is why we asked the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) to carry out a rapid review. We will consider the evidence put forward by the MAC very closely.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 25/04/2024 11:05:18 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4385 label Biography information for Dr Philippa Whitford

1712695

registered interest
date	22/04/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Graduates
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of (a) the increase in (i) visa and (ii) Immigration Health Surcharge fees and (b) the removal of the ability of taught masters students to bring dependants on trends in the level of demand for graduate visas.
tabling member constituency	Central Ayrshire
tabling member printed	Dr Philippa Whitford
uin	22960
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2024 answer text <p>The Home Office produced Impact Assessments (IA) alongside the visa and Immigration Health Surcharge (IHS) fee changes and the package of Student route reforms, including the change to dependant eligibility.</p><p>The Migration Advisory Committee are undertaking a review of the Graduate route. We will consider any evidence put forward by the MAC very closely.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 30/04/2024 13:07:16 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4385 label Biography information for Dr Philippa Whitford

1712696

registered interest
date	22/04/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Graduates
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of the removal of the ability of taught masters students to bring dependents on trends in the number of overseas female applicants for graduate visas.
tabling member constituency	Central Ayrshire
tabling member printed	Dr Philippa Whitford
uin	22961
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2024 answer text <p>The Home Office considers its Public Sector Equality Duty in the development of all policy. An Impact Assessment (IA) was also produced for the student dependant reforms.</p><p>In addition, the Migration Advisory Committee are currently undertaking a review of the Graduate route. We will consider any evidence put forward by the MAC very closely.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 25/04/2024 10:57:35 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4385 label Biography information for Dr Philippa Whitford

1702327

registered interest
date	18/04/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Graduates
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the letter from Professor Brian Bell, Chair of the Migration Advisory Committee, to the Home Secretary on 12 March, why the timescales of the rapid review of the Graduate Route, which they have asked the Migration Advisory Committee to undertake, are much shorter than a normal commission.
tabling member printed	Baroness Garden of Frognal
uin	HL3938
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2024 answer text <p>It is important we provide certainty on this issue in a timely manner, which is why we asked the MAC to carry out a rapid review. We will consider the evidence put forward by the MAC very closely.</p> answering member printed Lord Sharpe of Epsom question first answered 30/04/2024 13:43:28 answering member 4888 label Biography information for Lord Sharpe of Epsom
tabling member	3842 label Biography information for Baroness Garden of Frognal

1700084

registered interest
date	12/04/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Graduates
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the impact of the (a) removal of the ability of students on taught masters courses to bring dependants and (b) increase in (i) visa and (ii) Immigration Health Surcharge fees on levels of demand for the Graduate visa.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	20961
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/04/2024 answer text <p>An Impact Assessment has been prepared to accompany the dependant changes to the Student route, announced in May 2023, which came into force in January 2024. The Impact Assessment will be published in due course.</p><p>Impact assessments estimating the impacts of increasing visa fees and the Immigration Health Surcharge were published alongside the explanatory material for the changes. These can be found at <a href="https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2023/1004/impacts" target="_blank">The Immigration and Nationality (Fees) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2023 - Impact Assessment (legislation.gov.uk)</a> and <a href="https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2023/9780348252637/impacts" target="_blank">The Immigration (Health Charge) (Amendment) Order 2023 - Impact Assessment (legislation.gov.uk)</a>.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 22/04/2024 13:01:57 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas