Asked by: Layla Moran (Liberal Democrat - Oxford West and Abingdon)
Question to the Department for Exiting the European Union :
To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, what discussions he has had with (a) Oxford University and (b) Oxford Brookes University on the residence status of staff and students from other EU countries at those universities when the UK leaves the EU.
Answered by Robin Walker
As part of our commitment to hear from every sector and region in the UK, DExEU Ministers continue to engage closely with organisations across the higher education sector to enable us to understand key issues.
The Department has engaged with both individual institutions and higher education umbrella bodies, including Universities UK, and the Russell Group, via a range of channels, including the BEIS high-level stakeholder working group on EU exit, universities, research and innovation.
The Government is already taking steps to ensure that existing EU citizens resident in the UK will, post-exit, be able to live their lives broadly as they do now. The Prime Minister announced our policy proposal on citizens’ rights on Monday 26th June, setting out a fair and serious offer to EU citizens.
Details of Ministerial meetings will be published in the Department's Quarterly Transparency Returns, which will be made publicly available on GOV.UK.