Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent estimate she has made of the contribution to the UK economy of (a) non-UK EU students and (b) non-EU international students.

The most recent estimate of the value of international education to the UK can be found in the Government’s International Education Strategy, published in July 2013. This analysis showed that EU and Non-EU students at UK universities contributed an estimated £9.7bn in 2011 to the UK economy (tuition fees and living expenditure). The analysis does not separate non-UK EU students and non-EU international students.

The Department will shortly be publishing the latest estimates of the total value of education exports to the UK economy for 2014.