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date	24/10/2017
answering body	Department for International Trade
answering dept id	202
answering dept short name	International Trade
answering dept sort name	International Trade
hansard heading	Overseas Students
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what recent discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for (a) Education, (b) Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, (c) Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs and (d) Home Affairs on (i) higher education exports and (ii) encouraging overseas students to study in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
uin	109384
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2017 answer text <p>The Department for Education will be a standing member of the DIT Education Sector Advisory Board. Other Government Departments, including the Department for International Development, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and Home Office will be invited depending on the agenda for each meeting. The Government recognises the benefit that education exports bring to the UK and this Group will support the aspirations of the sector internationally.</p><p> </p><p>DIT liaises regularly across Whitehall departments in support of growth in higher education exports. The Government actively champions study in the UK through the GREAT Campaign and through the British Council which promotes the UK in over 100 countries. The UK attracts high numbers of overseas students, second only to the USA in terms of our market share, and there continues to be no limit to the number who can come here to study.</p> answering member constituency Wyre Forest answering member printed Mark Garnier grouped question UIN 109386 question first answered 01/11/2017 17:46:12 answering member 4074 label Biography information for Mark Garnier
tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

777084

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date	24/10/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Overseas Students
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many students from (a) India, (b) Nigeria, (c) Germany, (d) France, (e) Ireland, (f) Greece, (g) Saudi Arabia and (h) Poland have studied in the UK in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
uin	109378
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/11/2017 answer text <p>The Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) collects and publishes statistics on students enrolled at UK Higher Education Institutions. The number of student enrolments from the requested countries in the latest three academic years for which data are available has been provided in the table below. Statistics for the academic year 2016/17 will come available from HESA in January 2018.</p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="4"><p><strong>Higher Education Enrolments by Country of Domicile </strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p><strong>UK Higher Education Institutions </strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p><strong>Academic Years 2013/14 to 2015/16</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="3"><p><strong>Academic Year </strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>2013/14</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2014/15</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2015/16</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>India</strong></p></td><td><p>19,750</p></td><td><p>18,320</p></td><td><p>16,745</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Nigeria</strong></p></td><td><p>18,020</p></td><td><p>17,920</p></td><td><p>16,100</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Germany </strong></p></td><td><p>14,060</p></td><td><p>13,675</p></td><td><p>13,425</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>France</strong></p></td><td><p>11,500</p></td><td><p>11,955</p></td><td><p>12,525</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Ireland </strong></p></td><td><p>11,490</p></td><td><p>10,905</p></td><td><p>10,245</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Greece </strong></p></td><td><p>10,670</p></td><td><p>10,130</p></td><td><p>9,790</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Saudi Arabia</strong></p></td><td><p>9,060</p></td><td><p>8,595</p></td><td><p>8,570</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Poland</strong></p></td><td><p>5,200</p></td><td><p>5,245</p></td><td><p>5,655</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p>Source: HESA student record</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><ol><li>Numbers rounded to the nearest multiple of five.</li><li>Numbers include all modes, levels and across all years of study.</li></ol><p> </p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 14/11/2017 09:59:50 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson