§ Mr. WareingTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will indicate the income derived from postgraduate courses of study by Iraqi students in each year from 1981 to 1990 inclusive; and what proportion of these amounts were provided from grants or loans from the Government of Iraq.
§ Mr. Alan HowarthFees for overseas students are set by institutions. They are expected to meet the full cost of the provision made, but details of the actual fees charged are not collected by the Department. However, on the basis of the minimum fee levels recommended by institutions' representative bodies for different types of courses, the Department's estimate is that the total fee income from the numbers of Iraqi postgraduate students in British institutions in the 10 academic years 1980–81 to 1989–90 —details of which were provided at column372 on 14 January in response to an earlier question from the hon. Member—was in the region of £35 million to £40 million. The Department does not collect information about the sources of individual students' funding.