Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has plans to increase the 20-hour-a-week limit on work for Tier 4 students.

Student visa holders who are studying a full-time course of study, at degree level or above, at a higher education provider with a track record of compliance are already able to work up to 20 hours per week during term-time and full-time during vacation periods.

There are currently no plans to increase the number of hours international students on the Student route can work. The Student route is for international students who wish to study in the UK and is not designed as a means to live and work in the UK.