Written Answer by Mr Tan Chuan-Jin, Acting Minister for Manpower & Senior Minister of State, National Development, to Parliamentary Question on Work Holiday Programme Passes

Mr Pritam Singh: To ask the Acting Minister for Manpower how many Work Holiday Programme passes have been issued to students from each of the eligible country since 2007.

Mr Tan Chuan-Jin:

The Work Holiday Programme seeks to enable young foreign students to experience living and working in Singapore. It is restricted to students and recent graduates from selected overseas universities and limited to a validity of six months. The scheme has a capacity for 2,000 applicants at any one point in time. The number of Work Holiday Passes issued from 2008 to 2011 is provided in the table below.