Overseas Students: Scotland

(asked on 25th November 2014) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many non-European Economic Area students were granted visa extensions under the Fresh Talent: Working in Scotland route in each year since 2005.


Answered by
James Brokenshire Portrait
James Brokenshire
This question was answered on 2nd December 2014

The Fresh Talent Working in Scotland Scheme was closed in 2008. The information available from Home Office data for grants of leave to remain under this scheme is shown in the following table.

Home Office data for grants of leave to remain under the Fresh Talent: Working in Scotland scheme

2005 - 975

2006 - 2,045

2007 - 2,935

2008 - 1,665

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