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HANSARDTuition Fees: EU StudentsI will happily take a look at that specific issue and take it up with the Student Loans Company, which I visited in Glasgow about a month ago, and I am happy to continue our…29 Apr 2019HANSARDTuition Fees: EU StudentsWe have already guaranteed home fees status for EU students for the 2019-20 academic year. The decision for 2020-21 will be made shortly and applications will open in September…29 Apr 2019HANSARDTuition Fees: EU StudentsIt is important to reflect that leaving the EU provides us with an opportunity to decide our own immigration policy—we are beginning that work for 2021 onwards, which is why we…29 Apr 2019HANSARDTuition Fees: EU StudentsI am afraid that I do not agree with the hon. Lady on this. The British people voted to leave, and I am determined to ensure that I fulfil my manifesto commitments to my…29 Apr 2019HANSARDTuition Fees: EU StudentsWhen we look at the new immigration system, the new student finance system that will emerge post ’20-21 and whatever new system emerges on future scientific partnerships, it is…29 Apr 2019HANSARDTuition Fees: EU StudentsI recognise the hon. Lady’s point, which was made to me by Vivienne Stern, the director of Universities UK International. The recruitment procedures are ongoing. Applications for…29 Apr 2019HANSARDTuition Fees: EU StudentsI thank my hon. Friend for his comments. When it comes to tropical diseases, future scientific research on climate change or the opportunities that agri-tech might present to…29 Apr 2019HANSARDTuition Fees: EU StudentsAs I stated, since 2017 there has been a 3.8% increase in EU students applying and a 4.9% increase in non-EU students. It is welcome that last year we had a record number of…29 Apr 2019HANSARDTuition Fees: EU StudentsWhen it comes to national success stories, I want to ensure that our international education strategy provides opportunities for UK students to go to every corner of the globe,…29 Apr 2019HANSARDTuition Fees: EU StudentsI urge my hon. Friend to do so as well. I will not discriminate on either side of the House. It is a great deal, which will provide us with certainty. We have been closely…29 Apr 2019HANSARDTuition Fees: EU StudentsI go back to the statement. All these issues around reciprocal arrangements and partnerships are matters for future negotiations. I am keen to make sure that we can get on to that…29 Apr 2019HANSARDTuition Fees: EU StudentsAbsolutely. As a Minister, I am keen to move to the next stages of the negotiations around our future partnerships—in fact I am desperate to do so. I encourage Members who voted…29 Apr 2019HANSARDTuition Fees: EU Studentsindicated dissent.29 Apr 2019HANSARDTuition Fees: EU StudentsI thank the hon. Gentleman for his comments. Further to a previous intervention of his, I am looking forward to coming up to Huddersfield on 10 May. That demonstrates that I do…29 Apr 2019HANSARDTuition Fees: EU StudentsFrom the international perspective of the United Kingdom’s universities, I entirely agree that we now have the highest ever number of applications from foreign countries—about…29 Apr 2019HANSARDTuition Fees: EU StudentsI think the right hon. Gentleman is pointing to paragraph 61—is it?—of the political declaration on the future partnership with the EU. I wish he would support the political…29 Apr 2019HANSARDTuition Fees: EU StudentsI will touch on several points that the hon. Lady made. During oral questions we heard concerns raised about the right to remain. I regularly meet Scottish Minister Richard…29 Apr 2019HANSARDTuition Fees: EU StudentsIt is important to reflect on our obligations with regard to international policy in terms of both higher education and our sustainable development goals agreed by the United…29 Apr 2019HANSARDTuition Fees: EU StudentsI thank the hon. Lady for raising this urgent question. It is important that we all recognise that EU students and staff make a vital contribution to our universities. It is also…29 Apr 2019HANSARDTuition Fees: EU StudentsI thank my predecessor for his remarks. The work that he did so soon after we voted to leave the European Union, making the Government guarantee in July 2018 and extending student…29 Apr 2019