Student Visas
Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department
2:30 pm
Jim Sheridan (Paisley and Renfrewshire North, Labour)
Foreign students make a valuable contribution to many of our disciplines, particularly in manufacturing industry. However, there is one discipline through which they make little contribution to the UK economy: journalism. Will my hon. Friend therefore make sure that foreign journalists who apply for visas come here on the basis that they deal with factual evidence and factual evidence only?