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Written Question
Overseas Students: Fees and Charges
Wednesday 12th November 2025

Asked by: Lord Johnson of Marylebone (Conservative - Life peer)

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the remarks by Baroness Smith of Malvern on 22 October (HL Deb col 898), what modelling of the elasticity of demand for international students they have used to inform the decision to implement the international student levy.

Answered by Baroness Smith of Malvern - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)

The technical annex to the White Paper ‘Restoring control over the immigration system’ set out the initial modelling assumptions, which used the London Economics estimates of price elasticity commissioned by the department.

The department is doing further work on this and will set out further details on the levy at Autumn Budget.

Division Vote (Lords)
5 Nov 2025 - Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill - View Vote Context
Lord Johnson of Marylebone (Con) voted Aye - in line with the party majority and against the House
One of 149 Conservative Aye votes vs 0 Conservative No votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 157 Noes - 200
Division Vote (Lords)
5 Nov 2025 - Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill - View Vote Context
Lord Johnson of Marylebone (Con) voted Aye - in line with the party majority and against the House
One of 147 Conservative Aye votes vs 0 Conservative No votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 159 Noes - 194
Division Vote (Lords)
22 Oct 2025 - Planning and Infrastructure Bill - View Vote Context
Lord Johnson of Marylebone (Con) voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 144 Conservative Aye votes vs 0 Conservative No votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 228 Noes - 113
Division Vote (Lords)
22 Oct 2025 - Planning and Infrastructure Bill - View Vote Context
Lord Johnson of Marylebone (Con) voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 143 Conservative Aye votes vs 0 Conservative No votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 173 Noes - 120
Division Vote (Lords)
22 Oct 2025 - Planning and Infrastructure Bill - View Vote Context
Lord Johnson of Marylebone (Con) voted No - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 145 Conservative No votes vs 0 Conservative Aye votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 163 Noes - 236
Division Vote (Lords)
22 Oct 2025 - Planning and Infrastructure Bill - View Vote Context
Lord Johnson of Marylebone (Con) voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 156 Conservative Aye votes vs 1 Conservative No votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 246 Noes - 169
Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 22 Oct 2025
Post-16 Education and Skills Strategy

"My Lords, I declare my interest as a visiting professor at King’s and chairman of FutureLearn. I welcome the Statement, particularly, like my noble friend Lord Willetts, the bold decision to index fees with inflation—it is absolutely the right thing to do after a decade of real-terms freezes. However, I …..."
Lord Johnson of Marylebone - View Speech

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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 21 Oct 2025
Erasmus+

"My Lords, I declare my interest as a visiting professor at King’s and chairman of FutureLearn. I strongly welcome the Government’s efforts to associate with Erasmus. EU student numbers in the UK have roughly halved over recent years and now face further challenging policy headwinds under this Government. What assessment …..."
Lord Johnson of Marylebone - View Speech

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Division Vote (Lords)
21 Oct 2025 - Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill - View Vote Context
Lord Johnson of Marylebone (Con) voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 162 Conservative Aye votes vs 0 Conservative No votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 262 Noes - 157