Clydebank native Amy Callaghan MP has made a virtual return to House of Commons this week.
The SNP MP for East Dunbartonshire had two life-saving surgeries after collapsing at her home in June last year.
Ms Callaghan, a former pupil of St Mary's Primary and St Peter the Apostle High School, marked her return by asking in the House of Commons during Prime Minister's Questions about the charities financially affected by Brexit and the Erasmus programme.
The UK's participation in the Erasmus student exchange programme ended with the country's departure from the EU on December 31.
But the UK government is planning its own replacement scheme, named after the renowned mathematician Alan Turing.
Ms Callaghan said: "I would like to thank you and members across the House, including the Prime Minister, for your well wishes during my illness.
"The Prime Minister has previously guranteed there was no threat to the Erasmus scheme as a result of Brexit.
"We now know that charities such as Stand International who participated in the programme are set to lose 96 per cent of their funding as a result of the UK Government's decision to pull the plug on Erasmus.
"Can the Prime Minister gurantee that charities will receive match funding under the new Turing Scheme?"
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The Department for Education has said it will provide funding for around 35,000 students, and unlike Erasmus, students will be able to go on placements all over the world and not just in Europe.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson responded to the question. He said: "I do give her assurance that the Turing Scheme will be better and will deliver exactly what she wants. If there was a criticism of the Erasmus scheme, it was that it tended to favour higher income households.
"We will do everything we can with the Turing Scheme to reach out to give opportunity to people from disadvantaged backgrounds."
Ms Callaghan caused a huge shock at the 2019 UK general election when she beat Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson to win the East Dunbartonshire seat by just 149 votes.
She had previously described to the Post her diagnosis with melanoma while in her second year at university, and how she had undergone more than half a dozen surgeries and had to take a year off from university to recover.
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