Question follow-through · 80386

Palestine: Overseas Students

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if she will consider allowing Palestinian students starting studies at UK universities in 2025 to apply to bring dependent children to the UK.

answeredForeign, Commonwealth and Development Office

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Answering body: Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Tabled: 10 Oct 2025
Target answer date: 14 Oct 2025
Answer: 5 Nov 2025 · 26 calendar days after tabling

Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.

Recorded timeline

10 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if she will consider allowing Palestinian students starting studies at UK universities in 2025 to apply to bring dependent children to the UK.
14 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
5 Nov 2025
Answer published
On 27 October, the Government updated our guidance on scholarships for students from Gaza to confirm that it was now also seeking to support the departure of the dependents of those students who are eligible under immigration rules. Full details can be fo...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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