Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether there are any contingency plans for a replacement for the ERASMUS+ scheme for UK Universities in the event that the UK does not renegotiate access to ERASMUS+.

The Department for Education continues to make rigorous preparations for a range of possible outcomes from the UK's negotiations with the EU. Under the agreement made last week, the UK would participate in Erasmus+ until the end of the programme. No decisions have yet been made about post-2020 programme participation since the scope of this programme has not been agreed. Options will be discussed as part of phase two of negotiations.