Question follow-through · 12501
Visas: Overseas Students
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many study visas were issued to students studying at Scottish universities in 2021.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 4 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 6 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 12 Nov 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
4 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many study visas were issued to students studying at Scottish universities in 2021.
6 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 Nov 2024
Answer published
The Home Office publishes data on Family, Work, and Study visas granted in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’. However, this information is not broken down by place of residence or UK region.The published statistics can be found in the ...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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