Education: Exports

(asked on 29th January 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he plans to record data on education as an (a) export and (b) economic value (i) nationally, (ii) regionally and (i) locally.


Answered by
Chris Skidmore Portrait
Chris Skidmore
This question was answered on 4th February 2019

In January, the department published updated statistics showing UK education exports and transnational activity generated almost £20 billion for the UK economy in 2016, an increase of 26% since 2010. The department intends to publish these statistics annually. These statistics cover the whole of the UK and come from a variety of data sources and, as such, it is currently not possible to disaggregate these statistics to a regional or local authority level. Further information can be found at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/uk-revenue-from-education-related-exports-and-tne-activity.

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