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Secondly, the graduates from those two campuses are very few in number—fewer than 200 in a given year, which is a drop in the ocean when it comes to factoring them in to UK workforce planning. Make no mistake: they could be factored in if there was the political will to do so. Of course, the numbers should not be allowed to get out of hand. It should be perfectly possible, as the noble Baroness, Lady Gerada, suggests, for the Government to cap the overall totals by means of an order-making power, which was an idea I put forward in Committee. Thirdly, and following on from that, I am advised that QMUL and Newcastle University are the only examples of UK institutions with overseas campuses constituted in precisely this way.