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Question follow-through · 119436

Overseas Students: Sudan

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of her recent decision on Sudanese student visas on the Chevening Scholarship programme.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
10 Mar 2026
Target answer date
12 Mar 2026
Answer
17 Mar 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 10 Mar 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of her recent decision on Sudanese student visas on the Chevening Scholarship programme.

  2. 12 Mar 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 17 Mar 2026

    Answer published

    The decision to introduce a visa brake on the Student visa route for Sudan and the other three nationalities was based on data-driven migration and border security considerations. While we recognise that most people who apply to study in the UK do so genu...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

Later records

Possible follow-up questions

Strong links require the same MP, department and exact heading. Other same-department questions are shown as unreviewed candidates, not as confirmed follow-ups. No debate link is asserted unless a stable source relationship exists.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Asylum: Sudan

13 Mar 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 10 March 2026 to Question 119435 on Asylum: Sudan, how many of those who claimed asylum were Chevening Scholars.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Asylum: Overseas Students

13 Mar 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department operates a policy of ending study visas for nationalities where asylum claims from students go beyond a certain percentage.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Visas: Asylum

18 Mar 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many of those in the UK on Skilled Worker and Study visa routes have gone on to claim asylum by nationality, per quarter for the last four quarters.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Visas

18 Mar 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how the 18 month review of visa brakes will be conducted.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Visas

18 Mar 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the 18 month review of visa brakes includes considerations other than asylum-rates.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Visas

18 Mar 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the 18 month review of visa brakes includes engagement with Departments other than her own.

Strong linkSame MP, department and exact heading

Overseas Students: Sudan

18 Mar 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment was made of the potential impact on atrocity prevention in the decision to introduce student visa breaks for nationals of Sudan.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Overseas Students: Afghanistan and Sudan

18 Mar 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment was made of the potential impact of the decision to introduce student visa breaks for nationals of Sudan and Afghanistan on access to higher education in those countries.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Visas: Afghanistan and Sudan

18 Mar 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether a cost-benefit analysis was conducted of the visa brake being applied to Sudanese and Afghan students.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Refugees: Resettlement

18 Mar 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if the new refugee study and work pathway schemes will be open to nationals from Sudan and Afghanistan.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Refugees: Sponsorship

18 Mar 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if the new community sponsorship safe routes will be open to nationals from Sudan and Afghanistan.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Refugees

19 Mar 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when the new refugee study and work pathway schemes will open.