Erasmus+ Programme

(asked on 13th June 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the potential (a) social and (b) economic value of the additional grants that are available from the Erasmus+ programme for widening student participation in (i) the current programme and (ii) the 2021-27 programme.


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Chris Skidmore
This question was answered on 18th June 2019

I refer The hon. Member for Dulwich and West Norwood to the answer I gave on 8 May 2019 to Question 252019.

Further to this, the government is considering the value for money of the UK's participation in the Erasmus+ programme. This includes a range of monetisable and non-monetisable benefits and costs to ensure we capture all sources of potential economic value and cost. We will also want to consider carefully the impact of any of these options on students from disadvantaged backgrounds and those with disabilities in our assessments.

This assessment is ongoing and is part of a wider, cross-government exercise on considering value for money of EU programmes.

Ultimately, any decisions about our participation in the Erasmus+ programme will also be a matter for wider negotiations about our future relationship with the EU.

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