Question to the Department for Business and Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether she has had recent discussions with her Mexican counterpart on taking steps to facilitate student exchanges between UK and Mexican students.

The Secretary of State met with her Mexican counterpart in Mexico City in February. Discussions focused on boosting trade and investment between the United Kingdom and Mexico through the UK’s accession to CPTPP and a new free trade agreement. Facilitating student exchange was not a topic of discussion. However, I am pleased to note that the UK Government’s outward student mobility scheme which was launched in 2021, the Turing Scheme, has already successfully enabled funded organisations to send more than 800 UK students on placements to study and work in Mexico.