Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the number of overseas students currently studying at UK (a) schools and (b) universities.

(a) The Department does not have any data source that separately identifies the number of ‘overseas students’ attending schools in the UK where an overseas student is defined as a student who is not normally resident in the UK but has travelled to the UK to study.

(b) Data published by the Higher Education Statistics Authority (HESA) shows that in 2015/16, 438,000 international students (from both EU and Non-EU countries) were enrolled in UK Higher Education Institutions. Enrolment data for 2016/17 is currently unavailable.