Written Question·Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office·UIN 70100

Palestinians: Refugees

Tabled: 22 July 2025

Answered: 24 September 2025

Question

Patricia Ferguson

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will take steps with the Secretary of State for the Home Department to establish a scheme to facilitate the evacuation of Palestinian academics to the UK.

Answer

Mr Hamish Falconer

We are working urgently to support Chevening Scholars and fully-funded scholarship holders in Gaza who have offers from British universities to leave and take up their places in the UK. We are doing everything we can to support their safe exit and onward ...

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