Frank Dobson
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Damian Green
I am grateful for my hon. Friend’s support. She is quite right. As the House knows, about two thirds of all visas issued to people coming to this country are student visas, and there has been very widespread abuse of this route in recent years. That is why the enforcement action to ensure that, whether in the private or public sector, we get rid of that abuse is good not only for our immigration system but, in the long run, for our education system, because around the world people will know that British education is being properly monitored and run.
Frank Dobson (Holborn and St Pancras) (Lab)
How can the Minister believe that punishing students who are entitled to be at London Metropolitan university fits in with any British feeling of fairness?