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Written Question
Entry Clearances: Overseas Students
Thursday 27th April 2017

Asked by: Eilidh Whiteford (Scottish National Party - Banff and Buchan)

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what discussions she has had with the Home Secretary on reintroduction of the post-study work visa.

Answered by Lord Johnson of Marylebone

The Department engages regularly with the Home Office on matters of student migration.

Overseas students can remain in the UK to work following their studies by switching to several existing visa routes, including Tier 2 (skilled worker) visas.

The Government closed the dedicated Post Study Work visa route in 2012 on the grounds that it was open to immigration abuse (including low-skilled work and fraudulent applications).

Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 18 Apr 2016
National Living Wage

"I, too, pay tribute to the hon. Member for Mitcham and Morden (Siobhain McDonagh), not just for her efforts to secure today’s debate but for the work that she has done in recent months, fairly consistently, on this issue. I am sorry to hear that she is not very well, …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 18 Apr 2016
National Living Wage

"I certainly acknowledge that the approach is different, but I think that we should all appreciate the work done by the Low Pay Commission in assessing the levels of pay increase that our economy can sustain without pushing up unemployment, and the possibility of gaining that optimal balance between the …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 17 Mar 2016
Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation

"Yesterday, the Chancellor highlighted the huge uncertainties and risks facing the global economy, and he painted a fairly bleak picture of what might lie just around the corner. These have been very tough years for a lot of people, characterised by financial insecurity and drops in living standards, which have …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 17 Mar 2016
Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation

"I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for raising that issue because those figures deserve much greater scrutiny. The rise in the overall budget for disability spending to 2020 is easily explained by the fact that as the baby-boomer generation start to lose their health, and as life expectancy increases …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 17 Mar 2016
Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation

"The hon. Gentleman makes an important point and highlights the fact that young people’s housing problems are caused by undersupply of affordable housing. With the best will in the world, people on normal wages will never be able to buy a house in an urban area such as London, or …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 17 Mar 2016
Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation

"I will make some progress.

The lifetime ISA is a nice little bung for trustafarians and others with munificent parents or grandparents. An 18-year-old whose wealthy parents put £4,000 into a lifetime ISA every year until he or she is 40 will get a tidy wee £22,000 handout from the …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 17 Mar 2016
Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation

"I will not give way at the moment. No wonder that the Chancellor did not have much to say about the Help to Save scheme yesterday. It is a sham opportunity that is being dangled in front of people who can never hope to insulate themselves properly against financial shocks, …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 18 Mar 2015
Equal Pay

"It is a particular pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Weir. I congratulate the hon. Member for Islington South and Finsbury (Emily Thornberry) not only on securing the debate but on setting out the case so clearly and persuasively for reform of the Equal Pay Act 1970. I support, …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 18 Mar 2015
Equal Pay

"It is interesting, and I have seen it in my own generation. When I was young and fresh-faced, I came out of university keen to build a career. If anybody had told me then that I would be disadvantaged in the labour market, I would probably have laughed at them. …..."
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