HC Deb 14 June 2004 vol 422 c760W
David Davis

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what proportion of students admitted to the UK since 1979 have(a) completed their studies, (b) returned to their home country and (c) had their visa extended, broken down by nationality. [177093]

Mr. Browne

[holding answer 8 June 2004]: I regret that the information requested is not available.

We are currently considering a number of ways in which we could address this information gap for future years.

Data on passengers given leave to enter or further leave to remain in the United Kingdom as students by nationality are published in the Command Paper 'Control of Immigration: Statistics United Kingdom'1. These data however, relate to the number of journeys/decisions; a person making more than one journey/application for an extension of leave to remain may be counted on each occasion.

1 Obtainable from the Library of the House, and from the Home Office Research Development and Statistics Directorate website http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/commandpubsl.html. The latest edition is that for 2002 (Cm6053).