Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to introduce concessions to enable students currently residing in the UK on a student visa to apply for a new student visa without departing the UK when an award for their current course has been deferred as a result of the University and College Union marking and assessment boycott.

The marking boycott is the result of a dispute between education institutions and their employees. The impacts at individual institutions vary and it is not possible for the Home Office to estimate the number of students affected.