Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department is taking steps to encourage more students from Overseas Territories to study at UK universities.

Since 2007, persons who have settled status on arrival in the UK, and who come to the UK from specified British Overseas Territories, have been eligible for home fee status.

Since 2022/23, the department has extended this offer so that those starting designated full time and part time undergraduate courses, are also now eligible for tuition fee loans in England if they meet the residency requirements. This requires that they have been ordinarily resident in the UK, Channel Islands, Isle of Man and/or specified British Overseas Territories throughout the three year period preceding the first day of the first academic year of the course, with at least part of that period having been spent in the British Overseas Territories.