Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make it her policy to retain membership of the Erasmus+ programme beyond any transitional phase negotiated with the EU in the event that the UK leaves the EU.

I refer the hon. Member for Oxford West and Abingdon to the answer I gave on 20 December 2017, to Question 119523 on the Erasmus+ programme [119523]. Under the agreement made this month, the UK would participate in Erasmus+ until the end of the programme. No decisions can be made about post-2020 Erasmus+ programme participation since the scope of this programme has not been agreed. Options will be discussed as part of phase two of negotiations.