asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what representations he has received about fees payable by overseas students for degree courses; what response he has made: and if he will make a statement.

The representations I have received fall into three broad categories:

(i) urging that fees for overseas students should be increased,

(ii) urging that they should be reduced, and

(iii) seeking to establish the costs of tuition of overseas students and who bears, or should bear, them.

The Government's response to many of these representations was contained in the reply I gave to a Question by my hon. Friend the Member for Oxford (Mr. Luard) on 18th March 1975—[Vol. 888, c. 364–5.]—to which I have nothing to add.