Gillian Keegan corrected the Commons record on Topical Questions
The words were spoken in the Commons on 28 November 2022. The correction was made by letter from the Secretary of State for Education, the right hon. Member for Chichester (Gillian Keegan), and printed in Hansard's Written Corrections on 19 December 2022. The figure £29.5 billion in the original became £25.9 billion in the correction. Altogether 2 words differ between the two versions.
The question
Reports that this Government could cause monumental damage to higher education by restricting international students to so-called elite universities have been described by former Universities Minister Lord Johnson as a “mindless crackdown”. Can the Secretary of State confirm that this Government will not implement such a mindless policy?
Original and corrected words
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| I can confirm that we have a world-class education system and we will attract the brightest students from around the world. That is good for our universities and delivers growth at home. We were proud to meet our international student ambition earlier this year to attract 600,000 international students per year by 2030. Today that is worth | I can confirm that we have a world-class education system and we will attract the brightest students from around the world. That is good for our universities and delivers growth at home. We were proud to meet our international student ambition earlier this year to attract 600,000 international students per year by 2030. Today that is worth £25.9 billion and we are now focused on bringing in £35 billion from our education exports, which are the best in the world. |
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Receipt
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| Date read | 15 October 2026 |
| SHA-256 | a3c811e013f7cc8a7cb0ef819f26e898a1cd8dfabd3d480d7e7e49569aa0b08f |