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Commons Chamber
Public Services - Wed 16 Oct 2019
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Angela Rayner (LAB - Ashton-under-Lyne) And we will scrap tuition fees and bring back maintenance grants. - Speech Link
2: Carol Monaghan (SNP - Glasgow North West) Will the system be for entrants starting in 2020, or for students who are currently here? - Speech Link
3: Anne Milton (IND - Guildford) This is on top of the issues that the university and students have raised with me about new students - Speech Link
4: Stuart C McDonald (SNP - Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East) for students who are coming to study for four years—the vast majority of undergraduates in Scotland - Speech Link
5: Karen Lee (LAB - Lincoln) The Government must take Labour’s lead and scrap tuition fees while providing opportunities for everyone - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Social Mobility: Treasury Reform - Tue 11 Jun 2019
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) However, for lower to middle-earner graduates, it is the opposite—Augar raises their overall repayments - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) Such examples perpetuate the idea that university is only for the young and for the middle and upper - Speech Link
3: Lyn Brown (LAB - West Ham) the Government’s tuition fees regime. - Speech Link
4: Jesse Norman (CON - Hereford and South Herefordshire) That was the first new university in this country for 40 years, and it is a specialist tech and engineering - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Equality of Opportunity for Young People - Thu 16 May 2019
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Baroness Fall (CON - Life peer) and a more engaged environment for students, but the problems often start well before university. - Speech Link
2: Lord Dholakia (LDEM - Life peer) Why are there no immediate plans for the UK Government to lower the voting age for general elections? - Speech Link
3: Baroness Prashar (CB - Life peer) Students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds are less likely to go to university and more likely to - Speech Link
4: Lord Agnew of Oulton (CON - Life peer) At A-level, changes aim to improve students’ readiness for the demands of higher education. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Department for Education - Tue 26 Feb 2019
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Caroline Lucas (GRN - Brighton, Pavilion) Headteachers in my constituency are really concerned about teaching for special educational needs, with - Speech Link
2: Emma Reynolds (LAB - Wolverhampton North East) We have not had that until now, but the Government have felt they had to make provision for it. - Speech Link
3: Layla Moran (LDEM - Oxford West and Abingdon) How on earth did it take until August 2018 for the funding to finally be cut? - Speech Link
4: Will Quince (CON - Colchester) That is not good for students; it is damaging our international competitiveness; and it harms social - Speech Link
5: Justin Tomlinson (CON - North Swindon) Risks of low income and material deprivation for children and pensioners have never been lower. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Education: Treating Students Fairly (Economic Affairs Committee Report) - Wed 16 Jan 2019
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Lord Forsyth of Drumlean (CON - Life peer) As a starting point, we called for tuition fees to be frozen at £9,250 for the medium term. - Speech Link
2: Lord Bilimoria (CB - Life peer) For some students these problems are of far greater concern than the tuition fees. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Deech (CB - Life peer) Students are apparently more worried about their living costs than about their tuition fees. - Speech Link
4: Viscount Younger of Leckie (CON - Excepted Hereditary) fees for medical and nursing students, which is a fair point. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Improving Education Standards - Thu 29 Nov 2018
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Nick Gibb (CON - Bognor Regis and Littlehampton) most effective method for teaching early reading. - Speech Link
2: Nick Gibb (CON - Bognor Regis and Littlehampton) through the teaching for mastery programme. - Speech Link
3: Theresa Villiers (CON - Chipping Barnet) The exams are now more stretching for students, ensuring that they have a better grounding for further - Speech Link
4: Gordon Marsden (LAB - Blackpool South) Funding for students aged 16 to 18 has been cut by 8% in real terms since 2010. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Part-time and Continuing Education and the Open University - Thu 05 Jul 2018
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Lord Forsyth of Drumlean (CON - Life peer) get no support, including tuition fees and maintenance loans, for qualifications that are equivalent - Speech Link
2: Lord Hunt of Chesterton (LAB - Life peer) courses organised for full-time students. - Speech Link
3: Lord Shipley (LDEM - Life peer) I hope the Government will urgently look at whether it is justifiable for tuition fees for part-time - Speech Link
4: Viscount Younger of Leckie (CON - Excepted Hereditary) I can also report that the Minister took part in an online meeting with Open University students on Monday - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Education and Society - Fri 08 Dec 2017
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Lord Giddens (LAB - Life peer) You can take part in an online seminar with students from Africa while sitting in London, for example - Speech Link
2: Lord McConnell of Glenscorrodale (LAB - Life peer) for university students. - Speech Link
3: Lord Wallace of Saltaire (LDEM - Life peer) for university students. - Speech Link
4: Lord Agnew of Oulton (CON - Life peer) the National College for Teaching and Leadership and advanced-level online modules in areas including - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions
1st reading: House of Commons - Tue 28 Nov 2017
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: Angus Brendan MacNeil (SNP - Na h-Eileanan an Iar) Labour was going to do £7 billion-worth of cuts and, with students, it is responsible for £6,000 of the - Speech Link
2: Pat McFadden (LAB - Wolverhampton South East) For our constituents, it means lower than expected pay. - Speech Link
3: James Frith (LAB - Bury North) in the Budget for business concerned by the Government’s no-deal Brexit rhetoric; nothing for students - Speech Link
4: Liz Twist (LAB - Blaydon) education, other than for maths teaching. - Speech Link
5: Margaret Greenwood (LAB - Wirral West) Labour would abolish university tuition fees, but there was no money in this Budget to do that. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions - Wed 22 Nov 2017
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Ian Blackford (SNP - Ross, Skye and Lochaber) Government—trebled tuition fees. - Speech Link
2: Jeremy Corbyn (IND - Islington North) Government—trebled tuition fees. - Speech Link
3: Jeremy Corbyn (IND - Islington North) Good teachers and support staff leave.”That is what does for the morale both of teachers and students - Speech Link
4: Cheryl Gillan (CON - Chesham and Amersham) Member for Dover (Charlie Elphicke), I mentioned online VAT fraud. - Speech Link