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909471

registered interest
date	22/05/2018
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, what plans he has to increase the number of overseas students studying in UK universities over the next 10 years.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
uin	146912
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/06/2018 answer text <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 international students from outside the EU.</p><p> </p><p>The UK remains a highly attractive destination for non-EU students, with their numbers remaining at record highs – over 170,000 non-EU entrants to UK higher education institutions (HEIs) for the seventh year running. We actively promote study in the UK through the GREAT Campaign and to over 100 countries through the British Council. To encourage ambition across the sector, the government also set an aspiration to increase education exports (up to 60% of which is comprised of international students at UK HEIs) to £30 billion by 2020.</p><p> </p><p>To help inform decisions on the future migration system, the government has commissioned the independent Migration Advisory Committee to provide an objective assessment of the impact of EU and non-EU international students by September 2018. This has provided an important opportunity for the sector to share views and evidence.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 04/06/2018 05:54:19 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

900382

registered interest
date	09/05/2018
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, if he will make an assessment of trends in the level of the UK's international ranking as a destination for higher education in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	142305
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/05/2018 answer text <p>UNESCO statistics show that, in each of the last five years of available data (2011 to 2015), the UK was the second most popular study destination for oversea tertiary students, second only to the US.</p><p> </p><p>Numbers of international higher education students remain at record highs, with over 170,000 non-EU entrants to UK higher education institutions for the seventh year running. We welcome genuine international students who choose to come to the UK to study and there continues to be no limit on the number who can do so.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 14/05/2018 16:35:23 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

829042

registered interest
date	23/01/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Overseas Students
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the figures for the economic value of overseas students to the UK published by the Higher Education Policy Institute in its report The Cost and Benefits of International Students on 11 January, and whether they plan to take these figures into account when determining net migration targets.
tabling member printed	The Marquess of Lothian
uin	HL5023
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2018 answer text <p>The Government welcomes the contribution that international students make to the UK economy. We recognise that international students enhance our educational institutions both financially and culturally; enrich the experience of domestic students; and become important ambassadors for the United Kingdom in later life. <br>The independent Office for National Statistics is responsible for the production of the net migration statistics. In line with the internationally agreed UN definition, these statistics define a migrant as someone changing their normal place of residence for more than a year. Students are therefore included in the same way as other migrants. There is no limit on the number of international students who can come to the UK and there are no plans to change this. So long as students are compliant with immigration rules they should make a very limited contribution to net migration numbers.</p><p>The Government has recently commissioned the Migration Advisory Committee to undertake a study into the costs and benefits of international students.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 29/01/2018 16:44:17 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	259 label Biography information for The Marquess of Lothian

823554

registered interest
date	16/01/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Overseas Students
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has undertaken a societal or cultural cost-benefit analysis on removing non-EU students from their Government's net migration target.
tabling member constituency	Manchester, Gorton
tabling member printed	Afzal Khan
uin	123020
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2018 answer text <p>The Government welcomes the contribution that international students make to the UK economy. We recognise that international students enhance our educational institutions both financially and culturally; enrich the experience of domestic students; and become important ambassadors for the United Kingdom in later life. The Government has recently commissioned the Migration Advisory Committee to undertake a study into the costs and benefits of international students</p><p>There is no limit on the number of international students who can come to the UK and there are no plans to change this. So long as students are compliant with immigration rules they should make a very limited contribution to net migration numbers</p><p>The independent Office for National Statistics is responsible for the production of the net migration statistics. In line with the internationally agreed UN definition, these statistics define a migrant as someone changing their normal place of residence for more than a year. Students are therefore included in the same way as other migrants.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 123055 question first answered 19/01/2018 12:44:46 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4671 label Biography information for Afzal Khan

823593

registered interest
date	16/01/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Overseas Students
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the level of public support for removing students from the Government's net migration target.
tabling member constituency	Manchester, Gorton
tabling member printed	Afzal Khan
uin	123055
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2018 answer text <p>The Government welcomes the contribution that international students make to the UK economy. We recognise that international students enhance our educational institutions both financially and culturally; enrich the experience of domestic students; and become important ambassadors for the United Kingdom in later life. The Government has recently commissioned the Migration Advisory Committee to undertake a study into the costs and benefits of international students</p><p>There is no limit on the number of international students who can come to the UK and there are no plans to change this. So long as students are compliant with immigration rules they should make a very limited contribution to net migration numbers</p><p>The independent Office for National Statistics is responsible for the production of the net migration statistics. In line with the internationally agreed UN definition, these statistics define a migrant as someone changing their normal place of residence for more than a year. Students are therefore included in the same way as other migrants.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 123020 question first answered 19/01/2018 12:44:46 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4671 label Biography information for Afzal Khan

824019

registered interest
date	16/01/2018
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	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, what plans they have to increase funding for promoting campaigns to encourage students in overseas countries to study in the UK.
tabling member printed	Lord Norton of Louth
uin	HL4763
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2018 answer text <p>The <a href="https://study-uk.britishcouncil.org/" target="_blank">Study UK: Discover You</a> (“Study UK”) campaign led by the British Council, aims to promote UK higher education, attract the brightest and best students to choose the UK and support UK universities in their international objectives. Study UK is a core component of the government’s GREAT Britain campaign (“GREAT”), which showcases the very best of what our whole nation has to offer in order to encourage the world to visit, study and do business with the UK.</p><p> </p><p>Study UK uses digital and face to face activity in key markets to promote the quality and distinctiveness of the UK education offer in the highly competitive international market for globally mobile students. The campaign also promotes the success of international alumni of British universities in their countries and promotes other forms of UK study – for instance, by encouraging international students to study online courses provided by UK universities.</p><p> </p><p>Activity to encouraged overseas students to study UK courses on the online FutureLearn platform led to over 100,000 extra enrolments by overseas students on MOOCs (“Massive Open Online Courses”) provided by UK universities in 2016/17. Students enrolled from 124 different countries. This year, the programme has driven more than 60,000 such new enrolments to date.</p> answering member printed Baroness Fairhead question first answered 30/01/2018 14:57:09 answering member 4690 label Biography information for Baroness Fairhead
tabling member	3187 label Biography information for Lord Norton of Louth

821469

registered interest
date	12/01/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Overseas Students
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the findings of the recent report from the Higher Education Policy Institute on the financial contribution of overseas students and staff; and if she will review the classification of students in immigration statistics as a result of those findings.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	122387
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2018 answer text <p>The Government welcomes the contribution that international students make to the UK economy. We recognise that international students enhance our educational institutions both financially and culturally; enrich the experience of domestic students; and become important ambassadors for the United Kingdom in later life. The Government has recently commissioned the Migration Advisory Committee to undertake a study into the costs and benefits of international students.</p><p>There is no limit on the number of international students who can come to the UK and there are no plans to change this. So long as students are compliant with immigration rules they should make a very limited contribution to net migration numbers.</p><p>The independent Office for National Statistics is responsible for the production of the net migration statistics. In line with the internationally agreed UN definition, these statistics define a migrant as someone changing their normal place of residence for more than a year. Students are therefore included in the same way as other migrants.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 18/01/2018 12:16:30 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

805324

registered interest
date	12/12/2017
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, what estimate her Department has made of the market share UK universities hold for students studying abroad from (a) Nigeria, (b) Malaysia and (c) Saudi Arabia.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
uin	118996
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2017 answer text <p>The government fully recognises the important contribution that international students make to the UK’s higher education sector, both economically and culturally. Global data on international student destinations is not available in the format requested. However, it is available at the tertiary education level from The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization at the following link: <a href="http://uis.unesco.org/en/uis-student-flow" target="_blank">http://uis.unesco.org/en/uis-student-flow</a>. The link also includes further information on what types of education are included in the definition of tertiary education.</p><p> </p><p>This data shows that in terms of overall market share of overseas students studying tertiary level courses, the UK continues to attract the second highest numbers of overseas students (EU and non-EU) after the USA. For students from Nigeria and Malaysia the UK is the most popular destination and for students from Saudi Arabia it is the second most population destination.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 18/12/2017 17:02:52 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

802273

registered interest
date	06/12/2017
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, what estimate he has made of the net contribution foreign students studying in the UK made to the economy in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	North Dorset
tabling member printed	Simon Hoare
uin	117960
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2017 answer text <p>The table below shows the estimated contribution international students have made to the UK economy, in tuition fees and living expenditure, for the last three years of available data. The estimates for 2015 will be published in early 2018 and the estimates for 2016 will be published in Autumn 2018.</p><p><strong>International student’s<sup>1</sup> contribution to the UK economy in tuition fees and living expenditure, 2012 to 2014, current prices</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>£13.2 billion</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>£13.4 billion</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>£14 billion</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><sup>1 </sup>This estimate includes Higher Education, Further Education, Independent Schools and English Language Training students.</p><p>[Source: Department for Education Research Report, July 2017, UK revenue from education related exports and transnational education activity 2010-2014.]</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 15/12/2017 12:49:37 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	4494 label Biography information for Simon Hoare

800515

registered interest
date	04/12/2017
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Overseas Students
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment her Department made of the potential benefits to the economy of using Department for International Development funds for scholarships and grants for students and young people from developing countries to study at UK universities.
tabling member constituency	Bolton West
tabling member printed	Chris Green
uin	117136
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2017 answer text <p>There is a growing body of evidence that suggest that good quality Higher Education (HE) can make vital contributions to economic growth by developing the business leaders who create jobs and the skilled workforce needed to fill these. In addition, HE plays a key role in developing future leaders who can think critically, solve development problems and drive peace, stability and good governance.</p><p> </p><p>A review of spend across the Department for International Development (DFID) revealed that, during the financial year 2016/17, it was estimated that DFID supported 9,066 individuals through tertiary education scholarships in the form of:</p><p> </p><ol><li>DFID programmes that provide tertiary education scholarships directly for students in developing countries to study in the UK; in home countries, or a 3rd country.</li><li>Any programmes where DFID support other organisations to provide tertiary education scholarships.</li><li>DFID’s provision of core funding to an organisation (which provides scholarships), but the funding provided by DFID is not specifically to support the scholarships.</li></ol> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 11/12/2017 18:08:54 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4398 label Biography information for Chris Green