Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for International Trade on including education in its strategy for future bilateral agreements; and what the outcome of those discussions has been.
The government announced on 21 January that the Department for Education and the Department for International Trade will produce an international education strategy in early 2019. The strategy will set out the government’s ambition for international education, and plans to support the sector in driving growth in education exports.
The UK is committed to pursuing ambitious trade agreements with the United States, Australia and New Zealand after we leave the European Union, which would seek to build on the UK’s current £19.9 billion of education export revenue. The UK government will continue to ensure that rigorous protections for public services are included in all trade agreements to which it is party.