Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many people have travelled to (a) England, (b) Scotland, (c) Wales and (d) Northern Ireland under the Erasmus+ programme in each year since 2015.
The European Commission (EC) publishes statistics on Erasmus+. The latest available data is from 2018, published in January 2020. The EC records the number of incoming mobilities to the UK under the Erasmus+ programme, but this is not broken down by sub-national levels.
The table below summarises the number of incoming higher education students, trainees and staff to the UK on the Erasmus+ programme from 2014/15 to 2017/18. The EC publishes more data on Erasmus+ in their statistical annexes, which is available from: https://ec.europa.eu/programmes/erasmus-plus/about/statistics_en.
Incoming HE students, trainees and staff to the UK on the Erasmus+ program
| 2014/15 | 2015/16 | 2016/17 | 2017/18 |
Students & Trainees | 30,235 | 31,362 | 31,727 | 31,877 |
Staff | 3,436 | 4,406 | 4,786 | 4,970 |
Source: UK factsheet: https://ec.europa.eu/programmes/erasmus-plus/about/factsheets_en.