Question follow-through · 39364
Overseas Students: Oppression
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to safeguard students from (a) Hong Kong, (b) Tibet, (c) Taiwan and (d) Xinjiang, who are persecuted by the Chinese authorities on UK campuses.
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 18 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 20 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 29 Mar 2025 · 11 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
18 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to safeguard students from (a) Hong Kong, (b) Tibet, (c) Taiwan and (d) Xinjiang, who are persecuted by the Chinese authorities on UK campuses.
20 Mar 2025
Target answer date
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29 Mar 2025
Answer published
The first duty of the government is to keep the country safe and this government is committed to responding to foreign interference, including those actions which amount to transnational repression. The government takes protection of individuals' rights, ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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