Dr Julian Lewis: Will the Secretary of State kindly speak to the Secretary of State for the Home Department about getting visas for the 12 at-risk Afghan scholars – some still in hiding, some in Pakistan – who have been awarded sponsored places by high-quality British universities and who need the visas to take them up?

[The Secretary of State for Education (Gavin Williamson): I will most certainly undertake to do that. We have seen the education community in the United Kingdom coming together to support those who want to resettle from Afghanistan to this country; we also want to look at the opportunities for those brilliant, amazing people from Afghanistan and the part that they can play in our education system in the UK.]