Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the answer of 11 September 2026, to Question 27047, on Erasmus+ programme, what is her Department's latest estimate of the number of (a) inbound and (b) outbound Erasmus+ mobilities in its first year.

The department expects that around 100,000 people in the UK could benefit from Erasmus+ mobility and partnership opportunities in 2027.

The 2026 Erasmus+ Work Programme sets out minimum funding allocations across the entire 2021 to 2027 programme of 15.2% for school education, 21.5% for vocational education and training, and 34.6% for higher education. Further information is available at: https://erasmus-plus.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/2025-11/awp-erasmus-oct-2026_en.PDF.

Detailed information on the UK’s Erasmus+ beneficiaries will be available after the UK’s first year of participation.

Given the expansion of the programme, the department expects both inbound and outbound mobilities to be higher following reassociation compared with the UK’s previous participation.