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Operation Pathway

My Lords, I understand that so far 2,195 universities, independent schools and colleges have applied of the 15,000 that were doing this before. Just under 500 have actually been turned down. I do not have a breakdown of the exact reasons, but the figure shows that a number of so-called establishments were not really establishments at all—perhaps there were a number of names with the same postbox and things like that to allow people to come in as immigrants. That is why it is so important, as we identified back in 2007, to do something about this. I will answer the noble Baroness in writing if I have details of why they were turned down and I am allowed to put them on paper.