Question follow-through · 88351

Entry Clearances: Overseas Students

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 24 February 2025 to Question 31540 on Entry Clearances: Overseas Students, whether her Department has considered using (a) Programme for International Student Assessment resu

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Answering body: Home Office
Tabled: 5 Nov 2025
Target answer date: 11 Nov 2025
Answer: 17 Nov 2025 · 12 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

5 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 24 February 2025 to Question 31540 on Entry Clearances: Overseas Students, whether her Department has considered using (a) Programme for International Student Assessment resu
11 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Nov 2025
Answer published
We refer the honourable member to our answer of 24 February 2025 to PQ UIN 31540. Our position has not changed.

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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