Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department – in the House of Commons at 2:30 pm on 11 January 2016.
As I have already indicated, the Office for National Statistics includes international students in its net migration calculations, and like other migrants, international students who stay for longer than 12 months have an impact on communities, infrastructure and services while they are here. I underline that having those numbers there does not bear on our policy.