Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many students took part in the Erasmus Scheme in each of the last 10 years.

The UK National Agency for the Erasmus+ programme publishes official figures on UK Erasmus and Erasmus+ participation through their Statistics pages: https://www.erasmusplus.org.uk/statistics.

Data relating to Higher Education Erasmus and Erasmus+ student mobilities at universities and colleges can be found by selecting “Project Mobilities & Outputs”.

The file “2007-2014 Higher education mobility statistics” provides statistics for the Erasmus programme from academic years 2007/08 to 2013/14. The file “2014-2018 Higher education mobility statistics” provides statistics for the Erasmus+ programme from academic years 2014/15 to 2017/18. Table 2 of each file shows the number of outgoing students by sending institution. Data for subsequent academic years will be published by the National Agency in the coming months.

Data relating to Vocational Education and Training (VET) Erasmus and Erasmus+ learner mobilities at colleges is not published by the National Agency. The European Commission publishes data on overall[1] UK VET Erasmus and Erasmus+ mobility participants but this includes staff and the data cannot be disaggregated into learners only. It is also not available by sending institution.

[1] This summary data can be found in the statistical annexes of their Statistics page:

https://ec.europa.eu/programmes/erasmus-plus/about/statistics_en.