Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 4 November 2016 to Question 51507, what estimate he has made of the total cost of underwriting Erasmus plus bids that have been competitively funded after the UK has left the EU; and if he will make a statement.

As bids are competitively awarded directly from the EU to private recipients, it is not possible to predict accurately how much funding UK bodies will be awarded in future years. In 2016 ten UK-led projects were approved, with an estimated total value of €13 million, and a typical duration of 3 years.