Pete Wishart MP: written questions
4 Jul 2026–16 Oct 2026 · year in progress
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Written questions
Visa: GraduatesHome OfficeTabled 28 Aug 2026AnsweredUIN 19854More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate her Department has made of the number of international graduates who have remained in the UK via the Graduate Route visa since its introduction; and what assessment she has made with Cab
Answer: The Home Office publishes data on extensions of stay as part of the Immigration System Statistics quarterly release. Data on the number of grants issued under the Graduate route since its introduction are published in table Exe_D01 of the Extensions detai...
Answered 2 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordOverseas Students: Student NumbersDepartment for EducationTabled 28 Aug 2026AnsweredUIN 19853More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what discussions officials in her Department have had with a) the Scottish Government and b) representatives of Scottish universities regarding the fall in overseas student numbers since Brexit.
Answer: Education is a devolved matter. As such, the Scottish Government is responsible for higher education (HE) policy in ScotlandThe independent regulator of the English HE sector, the Office for Students (OfS), is responsible for monitoring the sector’s finan...
Answered 8 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordOverseas Students: Student NumbersDepartment for EducationTabled 28 Aug 2026AnsweredUIN 19852More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of trends in the number of overseas university students enrolling in UK higher education institutions since the UK’s departure from the European Union.
Answer: Education is a devolved matter. As such, the Scottish Government is responsible for higher education (HE) policy in ScotlandThe independent regulator of the English HE sector, the Office for Students (OfS), is responsible for monitoring the sector’s finan...
Answered 8 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordHigher Education: FinanceDepartment for EducationTabled 28 Aug 2026AnsweredUIN 19851More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of reduced numbers of EU students on the financial stability of higher education institutions across the UK.
Answer: Education is a devolved matter. As such, the Scottish Government is responsible for higher education (HE) policy in ScotlandThe independent regulator of the English HE sector, the Office for Students (OfS), is responsible for monitoring the sector’s finan...
Answered 8 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordHigher Education: ScotlandDepartment for EducationTabled 28 Aug 2026AnsweredUIN 19850More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of reduced numbers of EU students on the financial stability of higher education institutions in Scotland.
Answer: Education is a devolved matter. As such, the Scottish Government is responsible for higher education (HE) policy in ScotlandThe independent regulator of the English HE sector, the Office for Students (OfS), is responsible for monitoring the sector’s finan...
Answered 8 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordAsylum: ApplicationsHome OfficeTabled 28 Aug 2026AnsweredUIN 19849More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the impact of UK asylum processing backlogs on Scottish local authority public services.
Answer: We have restored order to what was a huge backlog of cases, with a streamlined and stable caseload that can be processed quickly and efficiently, ensuring people spend less time awaiting an initial asylum decision.At the end of June 2026 there were 40,168...
Answered 8 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordImmigration: ScotlandHome OfficeTabled 28 Aug 2026AnsweredUIN 19848More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment has been made of international examples of regional migration schemes, including those operating in Canada and Australia, and their applicability to Scotland.
Answer: Regional migration schemes would create internal borders within the UK, which operates on a much smaller geographic scale to Canada or Australia and has fewer barriers to people relocating within it. The Migration Advisory Committee has looked at this iss...
Answered 2 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordMigrant Workers: ScotlandHome OfficeTabled 28 Aug 2026AnsweredUIN 19847More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment has been made of whether the current immigration system meets Scotland’s projected workforce needs over the next ten years.
Answer: Regional migration schemes would create internal borders within the UK, which operates on a much smaller geographic scale to Canada or Australia and has fewer barriers to people relocating within it. The Migration Advisory Committee has looked at this iss...
Answered 2 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordAsylum: FinanceHome OfficeTabled 15 Jul 2026AnsweredUIN 18978More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to clause 23(5) of the Immigration and Asylum Bill, whether her Department intends to carry out individual destitution tests on all refugees or whether a minimum income threshold will b
Answer: The Immigration and Asylum Bill introduces the principle that, where a person has received taxpayer-funded asylum support and later becomes financially able to contribute towards those costs, it is right and fair that they should do so.The detailed design...
Answered 7 Sept 2026
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| Home Office | 5 |
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