Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many students have come to study in the UK from (a) other EU member states and (b) non-EU countries in each of the last 10 years for which figures are available.

Information on the country of origin of pupils is not centrally collected.

The latest information on the ethnicity of pupils can be found in Tables 4a to 4d of the ‘Schools, Pupils and their Characteristics: January 2015’ release at: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/schools-pupils-and-their-characteristics-january-2015

For information relating to students in higher education you will need to contact the Department for Business, Innovation & Skills (BIS) at: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-business-innovation-skills