Mentions:
1: None We were promised projects like Erasmus and Erasmus+. - Speech Link
2: Cameron, Donald (Con - Highlands and Islands) As we have mentioned Erasmus+ and horizon, I call Alastair Sim, who has not yet spoken. - Speech Link
3: Bibby, Neil (Lab - West Scotland) It is very regrettable that we are no longer part of the Erasmus+ programme. - Speech Link
4: None That is not incomparable to the numbers of students who went out from Scotland under Erasmus+. - Speech Link
5: None I want to come in on Neil Bibby’s comments about Erasmus+. - Speech Link
Asked by: John McNally (Scottish National Party - Falkirk)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what her Department's policy is on UK access to Erasmus+, in the context of the policies of the Irish Government on access to Erasmus+ in Northern Ireland.
Answered by Robert Halfon
The department understands that the Irish Government has allocated funding to allow higher education students in Northern Ireland to access the Erasmus+ Programme.
The department looks forward to continuing its collaborative work with sector stakeholders and Northern Ireland Executive officials to ensure that students in Northern Ireland are able to benefit from the opportunities available to them through the UK Government’s Turing Scheme.
For academic year 2023/24, the Turing Scheme is allocating over £2.9 million to education providers in Northern Ireland to fund international placements for over 1,000 participants, more than half of whom are students from disadvantaged backgrounds.
The government does not intend to negotiate resuming participation in any aspect of Erasmus+ with the EU as a Programme Country.
Mentions:
1: Adamson, Clare (SNP - Motherwell and Wishaw) However, Brexit has robbed many young people of that opportunity, and the Erasmus+ programme has been - Speech Link
2: Gilruth, Jenny (SNP - Mid Fife and Glenrothes) That is why the United Kingdom’s decision to withdraw from the popular and successful Erasmus+ programme - Speech Link
Asked by: Lord Kilclooney (Crossbench - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask His Majesty's Government how much funding was received by Northern Ireland under the EU Erasmus programme in (1) 2014, (2) 2015, and (3) 2016.
Answered by Baroness Barran - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Education)
Funding data has been published for the 2014-20 Erasmus+ programme by the British Council and Ecorys, who were acting as the UK National Agency. This data indicates that the amount of funding received by institutions in Northern Ireland for the years 2014, 2015, and 2016 was €6,336,885, €6,108,410 and €7,414,597 respectively.
Mentions:
1: Dey, Graeme (SNP - Angus South) Despite being smaller in scale than Erasmus+, the project supported student and staff exchanges, helped - Speech Link
2: Mackay, Rona (SNP - Strathkelvin and Bearsden) to continue its German educational trainee programme, given the impact of Brexit, the withdrawal of Erasmus - Speech Link
3: Duncan-Glancy, Pam (Lab - Glasgow) It has been almost four or five years since the Government removed the Erasmus+ scheme—or since we came - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Robertson, Angus (SNP - Edinburgh Central) Scotland benefited disproportionately from the horizon Europe and Erasmus+ programmes. - Speech Link
2: Robertson, Angus (SNP - Edinburgh Central) to rejoin horizon—incidentally, and perhaps we will come on to this, having also done the same for Erasmus - Speech Link
3: Robertson, Angus (SNP - Edinburgh Central) Unsurprisingly, that work involves a list of improvements that are reachable, which include rejoining Erasmus - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Robertson, Angus (SNP - Edinburgh Central) an end to freedom of movement, and it removed opportunities for our young people by abandoning the Erasmus - Speech Link
2: Stewart, Kaukab (SNP - Glasgow Kelvin) Shockingly, we are no longer a part of the Erasmus+ programme, which gave students across our continent - Speech Link
3: Stewart, Kaukab (SNP - Glasgow Kelvin) As I was saying, Erasmus+ has been replaced with the vastly inferior Turing scheme. - Speech Link
4: Robertson, Angus (SNP - Edinburgh Central) The best answer to being outside the Erasmus+ scheme is to be back in it. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Maguire, Ruth (SNP - Cunninghame South) The UK is no longer able to take part in the Erasmus exchange programme. - Speech Link
2: Maguire, Ruth (SNP - Cunninghame South) and universities secured 56 per cent less funding from the Turing scheme than they received through Erasmus - Speech Link
Written Evidence Apr. 24 2024
Inquiry: Preterm BirthFound: PRT0033 - Preterm Birth School of Public Health, Imperial College London, Erasmus MC – Sophia’s Children
Asked by: John McNally (Scottish National Party - Falkirk)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department plans to make changes to the Erasmus programme.
Answered by Robert Halfon
Erasmus+ is the European Union's programme to support education, training, youth and sport in Europe. Any changes to the programme are therefore for the European Commission to determine, and not the UK Government.