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Originally Posted by Hugh
And he has never told porkies before?
We send almost five times the number of students to the EU than the EU send to the U.K. - I’d love to see the figures that show we contribute five times that of the rest of the EU..
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It would be the Treasury civil servants that were lying, if that was the case.
The contributions to the scheme are based upon GDP, so the UK pays heavily on that count. The costs of the scheme are planned to double from next year.
The average stay of students under the scheme, is 6 months.
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Regarding the link between Spain and the island, Spain is the first in the ‘receiving countries’ list of British students, followed by France and Germany.
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And of course they're going there to study (the beaches and night life).
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154. Amatey Doku believed that the Government’s policy of ending free movement
would result in “more stringent immigration controls” after Brexit. Mr
Doku acknowledged it was unclear what this might mean for students, but
was “deeply uncomfortable” with any changes purporting to ensure students
did not use the Erasmus programme to “come in, drop out, and stay in the
country”.
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