Tuition Fees: EU Students

Thank you, Mr Speaker, for granting this urgent question. We have all read in the leaked reports ...

I thank the hon. Lady for raising this urgent question. It is important that we all recognise tha...

Does my hon. Friend agree that if we are going to spend limited hard-pressed taxpayers’ funds, it...

It is important to reflect on our obligations with regard to international policy in terms of bot...

It is interesting to hear the Minister talk about these UK taxpayer-funded schemes, because we kn...

I will touch on several points that the hon. Lady made. During oral questions we heard concerns r...

I thank my hon. Friend for his explanation; I know he thinks deeply about these issues. Does he a...

I thank my predecessor for his remarks. The work that he did so soon after we voted to leave the ...

The political declaration agreed between the EU and the UK talks about establishing

“genera...

I think the right hon. Gentleman is pointing to paragraph 61—is it?—of the political declaration ...

Does my hon. Friend agree that, generally speaking, the rule the Government should adopt, given t...

From the international perspective of the United Kingdom’s universities, I entirely agree that we...

May I tell the Minister that this was a deeply disappointing statement? He may not have been chun...

I thank the hon. Gentleman for his comments. Further to a previous intervention of his, I am look...

I do not know whether the Minister has been to the University of Huddersfield before.

indicated dissent.

Not yet. Well, I myself gave a lecture there on 24 June 2016, and it is a very fine establishment...

Last November, the EU27 and the UK agreed to the 147-point document about the future framework. P...

Absolutely. As a Minister, I am keen to move to the next stages of the negotiations around our fu...

If UK universities have to increase their fees for EU students and the EU universities reciprocat...

I go back to the statement. All these issues around reciprocal arrangements and partnerships are ...

Does my hon. Friend agree that, post Brexit, we want to continue to attract bright students from ...

She’s not voting for your deal either.

I urge my hon. Friend to do so as well. I will not discriminate on either side of the House. It i...

UK higher education is one of our great national and international success stories, yet there can...

When it comes to national success stories, I want to ensure that our international education stra...

Despite what all the doomsayers constantly claim, will the Minister confirm for the record what i...

As I stated, since 2017 there has been a 3.8% increase in EU students applying and a 4.9% increas...

The Minister must know that the university recruitment cycle for 2020 is already under way, and t...

I recognise the hon. Lady’s point, which was made to me by Vivienne Stern, the director of Univer...

With four of 10 of the top universities globally being in the UK, international students are fort...

When we look at the new immigration system, the new student finance system that will emerge post ...

I support the concerns expressed by the hon. Member for Ashton-under-Lyne (Angela Rayner) about t...

I am afraid that I do not agree with the hon. Lady on this. The British people voted to leave, an...

As a member of the board of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, I agree with my hon. Frien...

I thank my hon. Friend for his comments. When it comes to tropical diseases, future scientific re...

In many of his responses, the Minister has seemed to imply that being a member of the EU was stop...

It is important to reflect that leaving the EU provides us with an opportunity to decide our own ...

The Minister says he wants us to continue to enjoy the current benefits of our EU membership but ...

We have already guaranteed home fees status for EU students for the 2019-20 academic year. The de...

Surely, the Minister must accept as a point of general principle that if a student wants to come ...

On this point about European temporary leave to remain, which we also discussed in oral questions...

Will the Minister confirm that the number of EU nationals applying to UK universities is already ...

There are currently a record 139,000 EU students at UK universities, and the number of EU applica...

A 17-year-old constituent of mine came to my surgery a few weeks ago in great distress. She has l...

I will happily take a look at that specific issue and take it up with the Student Loans Company, ...

Our higher education sector has been one of the great success stories of recent years, and we hav...

I should be happy to have the opportunity to meet the hon. Gentleman and the vice-chancellor of W...

I was pleased to hear that the Minister will shortly visit the University of Huddersfield. As he ...

I would certainly be delighted to come up to the University of Hull, which is one of the homes of...

I was reading Philip Norton’s text books as part of my undergraduate studies 35 years ago, but of...

These exchanges have shown exactly the problems with the political declaration: the Minister talk...

The Government guarantee, when it comes to participation in the Erasmus programmes, has stated th...

On EU students, the Minister will know that, as he plans to raise the drawbridge into England thr...

Again, we have made no announcement on raising any fees. The future decision on fee rates for EU ...