Extract from end of day
adjournment debate on Suspicious Deaths Abroad
(West
Dunbartonshire) (SNP): I congratulate my hon. Friend,
and I am grateful to them for allowing me to intervene. Since
2015, three families in my constituency—that of Caroline Hope
from Clydebank, whose family had to raise funds to allow her to
come home to die; that of Lisa Brown, who has been missing in
Spain for two and a half years; and that of Jagtar Singh Johal,
who has been in detention in India without charge for nearly four
months—have had to go through a maze of bureaucracy. Does my hon.
Friend agree that it is time to consider a legislative framework
for consular support, because of its complexity, rather than the
ad hoc policy approach that we have seen for a long time? That is
no detriment to the staff of the FCO, who do a commendable
job...
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Westminster Hall debate on Funding Higher
Education
(Glasgow North West)
(SNP): One of the other issues with international
students is that we have lost a lot of the diversity within that
group. Whereas in the past, students came from India, Australia,
the United States and Canada, we are more and more relying on the
Chinese student population. That is problematic, because if
anything happens politically to change that relationship, our
universities could have difficulties.
(Sheffield Central)
(Lab): The hon. Lady makes a very important point. The
numbers have been sustained only by the huge increase in the
number of Chinese students. Of course, Chinese students are very
welcome in the UK, but no business would be satisfied with
becoming over-dependent on one customer. China is moving ahead in
leaps and bounds in developing its own universities, and now has
some of the finest universities in the world, doing some of the
finest research in the world, so we cannot rely on that market.
The hon. Lady is absolutely right that part of the new strategy
that we need to encourage people to come from all over the world
needs to be about looking at countries such as India, from which
the numbers have dropped.
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