Oral question asked in the House of Lords, by Baroness Knight of Collingtree (Conservative). It was answered on Monday, 30 April 2012.
Migration: University-sponsored Students
- Question
- My Lords, is it not the case that the situation has been made very much worse by the numbers of students who have come here from foreign countries and not left but remained here, making great difficulties? Is not that point at the heart of this difficulty?
- Answer
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My noble friend is right to point out that quite a large number of students stay on, but the other point to make to her is that quite a number of people coming over in the past—not the university students that we are talking about—were coming over to colleges that did not really exist and were there purely as a scam to get around migration statistics. That is what we have been trying to deal with.
Secondary information
- Type
- Oral question
- Reference
- 736 c1935-6
- Session
- 2010-12
- Oral question type
- Supplementary
- Chamber / Committee
- House of Lords chamber
- Subjects
- Overseas students Migration Statistics
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