Yes, I agree entirely. It was shorthand to talk of work. You’re quite right to correct me on that. Thank you for doing so.

Of course, the tier 1 post-study work visa, which was abolished in 2012, did allow international students to wait for an additional two years after graduation. Universities across the UK and in Wales are supportive of that. Such a scheme would benefit the economy, enabling talented students to remain here in Wales.

There is a pilot scheme currently allowing four universities in England to take more responsibility for checking the qualifications of the tier 4 applicants for visas. As part of the scheme, qualified students can remain in the country for six months after graduation to seek work, and then apply for a tier 2 visa, but that scheme is far from being akin to what we had in place previously. Plaid Cymru has also called for a Welsh visa system, which would enable Wales to give its own qualification visas, rather than Westminster acting as a barrier between Wales and the world. It’s something that the all-party group on social integration in Westminster highlighted just last week too.

Finally, of course, we need to take international students from the UK net migration targets, and now, individuals such as George Osborne and Boris Johnson have stated that they would be supportive of such a move. A recent survey by Universities UK showed that the majority of the public don’t consider international students to be migrants. Seventy-five per cent welcomed higher numbers of international students, and 91 per cent believed that they should have a right to remain within the UK to work post study.So, there’s a great deal that needs to be done, but what is unquestionable is that students from outwith the UK do make a cultural, academic and economic contribution, which is very important and substantial to Wales. We need to protect and strengthen that, in my view. Westminster must not be some sort of barrier, as I’ve said, between Wales and the world. We can send a strong message on some of the things that we would want to do from the Chamber this afternoon by supporting this motion today.