Question to the Department for Education:

To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Barran on 25 May (HL235), how many Ukrainian university students have been given visas to study at a UK university, following Russia's invasion of that country.

The information requested is not held by the department. The Home Office is responsible for issuing visas, including student visas.

Following Russia’s unprovoked attack on Ukraine we have seen an extremely positive response from the higher education sector in their offer of support to future cohorts of Ukrainian students. We are confident the sector will do their upmost to support Ukrainians wishing to access higher education in the next academic year.

In addition, UUKi are progressing wider efforts to establish a mechanism to match UK universities with Ukrainian institutions through a twinning arrangement. The intention of this programme is to help Ukrainian universities sustain their operations and wherever possible, continue to retain their staff and students, albeit in partnership or remotely.