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Parliamentary briefings and submissions
Parliamentary briefings and submissions
We produce parliamentary briefings on a range of subjects based on the current legislative programme, our policy priorities and campaigns.
These include briefings on immigration and freedom of speech.
Parliamentary briefing: Counter-Terrorism and Security Bill – House of Lords Committee Stage
Briefing
4 February 2015
Parliament and government
Universities and counter terrorism
This briefing covers a number of amendments to Part 5 of the Counter-Terrorism and Security Bill which have been tabled for debate at Committee Stage in the House of Lords.
Update from Universities UK’s Student Funding Panel – emerging issues
Briefing
6 January 2015
Parliament and government
This paper by Universities UK's Student Funding Panel highlights the issues and questions emerging from the panel’s work so far.
Parliamentary briefing: Counter-Terrorism and Security Bill – Committee Stage
Briefing
12 December 2014
Parliament and government
Universities and counter terrorism
Universities UK’s briefing for MPs for the Committee Stage of the Counter-Terrorism and Security Bill.
Parliamentary briefing: Immigration Bill - Lords’ Second Reading
Briefing
10 February 2014
Immigration
Parliament and government
Universities UK is concerned about provisions in the Immigration Bill.
Parliamentary briefing: Immigration Bill - Commons’ Report Stage and Third Reading
Briefing
31 January 2014
Immigration
Parliament and government
Universities UK’s briefing for MPs for the Report Stage and Third Reading of the Immigration Bill.
Parliamentary briefing: Intellectual Property Bill – Committee Stage, House of Commons
Briefing
29 January 2014
Parliament and government
Universities and counter terrorism
Universities UK supports Clause 20 of the Intellectual Property Bill which provides a qualified exemption from Freedom of Information requests for pre-publication research.
Universities UK submission to the 2013 Spending Round
Report
16 May 2013
Funding
Parliament and government
Universities UK’s submission to the government’s 2013 Spending Round sets out why and how universities are critical to maintaining the UK’s economic competitiveness.
Parliamentary briefing: Impact of current immigration policy on the attractiveness of United Kingdom universities to overseas students (Lord Giddens)
Briefing
30 October 2012
Immigration
Parliament and government
This briefing covers the topic of an Oral Question asked by Lord Giddens on the impact of immigration policy on the UK's ability to continue to attract overseas students to study at its universities.
Parliamentary briefing: Oral Question – Benefits to the UK of ceasing to classify foreign university students as economic migrants (Lord Hannay of Chiswick)
Briefing
3 July 2012
Immigration
Parliament and government
This briefing covers the topic of an Oral Question asked by Lord Hannay of Chiswick, covering the potential benefits of removing students from the government's target to bring net migration to under 100,000.
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Blogs
General election 2019: what the parties say on higher education
27 November 2019
UUK's Karmjit Kaur takes a look at the policy commitments on higher education in party manifestos ahead of the general election.
General election 2019: skills, jobs and opportunity
11 November 2019
UUK's Karmjit Kaur on the policies that all parties should commit to, to ensure UK universities remain a global success story.
News
Universities UK responds to Labour manifesto
21 November 2019
UUK President Julia Buckingham responds to the release of the Labour manifesto
New Prime Minister must support the continued success of university sector
23 July 2019
Universities UK is calling on the new Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, to cement the world-leading reputation of our universities and to help them to make an even bigger impact on people's lives through their teaching and research.
UUK and sector partners call for reform of the student visa system
18 July 2019
The government is being challenged to back-up its commitment to boosting international student numbers with reform to the new student visa route.
