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Students: Radicalism

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of potential foreign state ideological influence operating through student networks affiliated to UK universities.

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body
Department for Education
Tabled
10 Mar 2026
Target answer date
16 Mar 2026
Answer
23 Mar 2026 · 13 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 10 Mar 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of potential foreign state ideological influence operating through student networks affiliated to UK universities.

  2. 16 Mar 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 23 Mar 2026

    Answer published

    This government is committed to freedom of speech and academic freedom within the law, but those freedoms do not extend to behaviour that constitutes extremist intimidation, harassment and incitement to hatred.The National Security Act 2023 introduced off...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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Overseas Students: Student Wastage

17 Mar 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what number of international students by university and by nationality who dropped out of university in the academic year 2024/2025.