Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how much his Department has spent on advertising higher education aimed at non-EU nationals in each of the last five years.

The Department for Business Innovation and Skills has not funded advertising specifically aimed at non-EU nationals in the last five years. Government promotion of UK higher education to students overseas principally takes place through the British Council, the Britain is GREAT marketing campaign which has an education pillar, and via ministerial bilateral engagement.

In the last five years ministers have promoted UK education opportunities through a wide range of overseas visits.