Moved by
Lord Dubs
147: After Clause 84, insert the following new Clause—
“Access to support for students recognised as needing protection
(1) Within six months from the day on which this Act comes into force, the Secretary of State must, by regulations, make provision for financial support for higher education courses to be offered to students with certain immigration statuses.
(2) The regulations specified in subsection (1) must include, but need not be restricted to, provision for—
(a) persons granted humanitarian protection and their family members; and
(b) persons who have been brought to the United Kingdom under the Syrian Vulnerable Persons Relocation Scheme, or any equivalent scheme, and their family members to be eligible for the support set out in subsection (3).
(3) The support set out in this subsection is—
(a) home fees for a higher education course, if they have been ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom since being granted leave, and
(b) student loans for a higher education course, if they have been ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom since being granted leave, and are ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom on the first day of the first academic term of that course.
(4) In this section—
“home fees” means fees for a higher education course charged to persons considered as “qualifying persons” under regulations made under the Higher Education Act 2004;
“student loans” means loans made to students in connection with their undertaking of a higher education course under the Teaching and Higher Education Act 1998.”