Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will confirm how many publicly-funded colleges have been (a) granted and (b) refused international licences to run privately-funded courses in each year since 2008.
The number of publicly-funded colleges that had an application for a Tier 4 sponsor licence (a) granted and (b) refused, in each year since 2008, is:
2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | Total | |
Granted | 188 | 333 | 37 | 33 | 32 | 38 | 21 | 5 | 687 |
Refused | 6 | 36 | 13 | 13 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 2 | 92 |
An application may be refused for various reasons. We do not collate information on the courses each sponsor offers or the reason(s) for the refusal of each application.