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Refugees: Overseas Students

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to implement a permanent framework for refugee students to study in the UK.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
29 Oct 2025
Target answer date
4 Nov 2025
Answer
4 Nov 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 29 Oct 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to implement a permanent framework for refugee students to study in the UK.

  2. 4 Nov 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 4 Nov 2025

    Answer published

    The Immigration White Paper published on 12 May announced a review of the UK’s existing refugee resettlement and sponsorship schemes. This will ensure that there is a framework which allows businesses, universities and communities to sponsor refugees to l...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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