Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what data her Department considered to inform the changes to tier 4 immigration rules for students at further education colleges, announced on 13 July 2015.

The Home Office considered a range of data, including Home Office Immigration Statistics internal Home Office intelligence and compliance data and Labour Force Survey data.

Home Office Immigration Statistics can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-statistics