Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many international students entered the UK with (a) a child and (b) an adult dependent in each of the last five years.
Information on the number of non-EEA national students and their dependants entering the UK, is published as part of the Home Office’s quarterly Immigration Statistics, Admissions table ad_03_s, latest edition available at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-april-to-june-2017/list-of-tables#admissions
Statistics on visitors, short term migrants, or long term migrants entering the UK, including international students (UK, EU and non-EU nationals) and their dependants, is a matter for the independent Office for National Statistics which publishes data on international migration at https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populationandmigration/internationalmigration