{"data": [{"Note to non-subscribers": "A limited sample of data is provided for non-subscribers. To view the full dataset sign up at https://www.parallelparliament.co.uk/pricing"}, {"title": "Memorial for Amrit and Saroj Lal", "primary_signatory": "Tracy Gilbert", "tabled_date": "2026-03-26", "motion_text": "That this House commemorates Amrit and Saroj Lal, founders of the Edinburgh Hindu Mandir and Cultural Centre; notes that a memorial service was held for them in March 2026 following Amrit\u2019s passing earlier this year and Saroj\u2019s passing in 2020; understands that both Amrit and Saroj worked tirelessly throughout the 1980s to find and create a permanent home for Hindu worship and culture in Edinburgh; and further notes that following years of work they founded the Edinburgh Hindu Mandir on 13th November 1993 on St Andrews Place which has gone from strength to strength since.", "signatures": 1, "most_recent_signature": "2026-03-26", "source_link": "https://edm.parliament.uk/early-day-motion/65520"}, {"title": "Higher education funding (No. 2)", "primary_signatory": "Carla Denyer", "tabled_date": "2026-03-26", "motion_text": "That this House considers higher education should be treated as a public good not something to be commodified as a private expense and that universities and graduates play an essential role in society and our economy; believes in scrapping undergraduate tuition fees and restoring maintenance grants; notes the English funding model is an international outlier by relying on high tuition fees and large student loan balances and many OECD countries operate systems that treat higher education primarily as a public investment; further notes the London Economics finding that for every \u00a31 of public money invested in the higher education sector across the UK, \u00a314 goes back into the economy and the total economic impact of the sector is estimated at more than \u00a3265 billion; further believes higher education has intrinsic value in and of itself; thinks it is totally unacceptable that students and graduates are being ripped off under outrageous loan terms that no consumer lender would be allowed to get away with; recalls in 2012, the Coalition Government nearly tripled tuition fees from \u00a33,225 to \u00a39,000 a year and introduced the unjust Plan 2 system; also believes that the freezing of the Plan 2 student loan repayment threshold is profoundly wrong; also notes the significant amount of public subsidy our dysfunctional student loan system requires; and calls on the Government to urgently return to a system of free higher education paid for by progressive taxation.", "signatures": 5, "most_recent_signature": "2026-03-26", "source_link": "https://edm.parliament.uk/early-day-motion/65518"}]}