Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department – in the House of Commons at 2:30 pm on 11 January 2016.
Laurence Robertson
Chair, Northern Ireland Affairs Committee, Chair, Northern Ireland Affairs Committee
2:30,
11 January 2016
Given that students who come to this country for more than a year are officially classed as immigration, and given the concern about levels of immigration into this country, would it be sensible to give a separate classification to students who come here to study? As we have already heard, those students bring a lot of money to the country, and they extend British influence abroad.
