Question to the Scotland Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what information his department holds on the number of undergraduates studying at Scottish universities from (a) Scotland (b) the rest of the UK and (c) other EU member states.

There were 162,200 undergraduates studying in Scottish Higher Education institutions in the 2013/14 academic year (excluding Open University students). Of these some 115,700 (or 71 per cent) were of Scottish domicile. A further 19,600 students (or 12 per cent) came from other UK countries and 13,800 (or 9 per cent) were from other EU member states.