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Student Visas

Proceeding contribution from Damian Hinds (Conservative) in the House of Commons on Thursday, 6 June 2013. It occurred during Backbench debate on Student Visas.

As always, my hon. Friend makes her point clearly and well. I do not have enough knowledge about the interview to comment, but overall, with or without a cap, and whatever happened last year or this year—we know that there is no cap, and we know that the figures look broadly okay—it nevertheless remains the case that, given the intense scrutiny to which immigration numbers will rightly be subjected, how students are treated in those statistics must inevitably affect the extent to which we as a country seize this market opportunity in the years ahead.

In one way it is blindingly obvious, but it is worth saying that not every student adds to immigration. In the steady state, so long as we are reasonably good at counting people leaving as well as those coming—

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
563 c1728 
Session
2013-14
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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