§ Mr. Kinnockasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what representations he has received about fees payable by overseas students for degree courses; what response he has made: and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. PrenticeThe representations I have received fall into three broad categories:
- (i) urging that fees for overseas students should be increased,
- (ii) urging that they should be reduced, and
- (iii) seeking to establish the costs of tuition of overseas students and who bears, or should bear, them.
The Government's response to many of these representations was contained in the reply I gave to a Question by my hon. Friend the Member for Oxford (Mr. Luard) on 18th March 1975—[Vol. 888, c. 364–5.]—to which I have nothing to add.