Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the number of EU graduate students who have remained in (a) the UK and (b) Scotland, employed in jobs relating to (i) science, (ii) technology, (iii) engineering and (iv) mathematics subject areas in each of the last three years.

Destinations of students six months after leaving UK higher education institutions (HEIs) are collected and published annually by the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) as part of the Destination of Leavers from Higher Education (DLHE) survey. Statistics on the destinations of EU domiciled students six months after leaving UK HEIs, including the numbers in UK employment, are published in Table 1 of HESA’s Statistical First Release. The latest statistics were published in June 2016 for students leaving their courses in the 2014/15 academic year at the following link:

https://www.hesa.ac.uk/news/30-06-2016/sfr237-destinations-of-leavers

The occupations of employed graduates are also recorded in the DLHE survey but a standard categorisation of these into science, technology, engineering and mathematics is not available.