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Overseas Students

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a cap on the number of international students.

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body
Department for Education
Tabled
29 Jan 2025
Target answer date
3 Feb 2025
Answer
14 Feb 2025 · 16 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 29 Jan 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a cap on the number of international students.

  2. 3 Feb 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 14 Feb 2025

    Answer published

    The government is committed to a United Kingdom that is outward looking and welcomes international students, who make a positive contribution to the UK’s higher education sector, our economy and society as a whole. Universities in England receive an estim...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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Department for Education: Employers' Contributions

30 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the cost to her Department of the proposed increase in employer National Insurance contributions for financial year 2025-26.

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Department for Education: Equality

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21 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will publish a breakdown of student loan recipients by nationality in each of the last five years.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

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Schools: Offences against Children

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