Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 8 December 2016 to Question 55996, how many universities do not stick to the rules.

All institutions that sponsor Tier 4 students are required to undergo an annual basic compliance assessment. In the period May 2010 to September 2016, 968 institutions have had their Tier 4 sponsor status revoked. This number does not include those institutions that failed their basic compliance assessment but retained their licences after having had discretion applied. It does include those that have subsequently had their licences reinstated. The list of current sponsors on the Tier 4 register is updated daily and is available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/578935/2016-12-19_Tier_4_Register_of_Sponsors.pdf