Overseas Students: Economic Situation

(asked on 3rd September 2025) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent estimate she has made of the net financial impact of international students to the economy.


Answered by
Josh MacAlister Portrait
Josh MacAlister
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Education)
This question was answered on 17th September 2025

International students make a very significant contribution to the UK economy. Departmental statistics on education-related exports, published in June, estimated that international students contributed £21.06 billion to the UK economy in 2022 through their tuition fees and living expenditure.

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