Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if the Government will take steps to ensure that as part of the transitional arrangement EU students starting courses in English higher education institutions during any agreed implementation period will continue to be eligible for (a) home fee status and (b) student loans and grants.

Future arrangements for EU students starting courses after 2018/19, and who are not settled in the UK or on a pathway to settled status by the specified date, is being considered as part of wider discussions about the UK’s relationship with the EU.

Applications for courses starting in 2019/20 do not open until September 2018, and we are working to ensure students applying have information well in advance of this date.