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Lords Chamber
Autumn Budget 2024 - Mon 11 Nov 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Lord Livermore (Lab - Life peer) We have announced permanently lower business rates for retail, hospitality and leisure properties. - Speech Link
2: Lord Johnson of Lainston (Con - Life peer) fees, which the OBR believes will affect 600,000 students. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Warwick of Undercliffe (Lab - Life peer) and maintenance loans for higher education students. - Speech Link
4: Lord Young of Cookham (Con - Life peer) the NHS was accompanied by no proposals for reform until next spring. - Speech Link
5: Lord Lexden (Con - Life peer) They have called for the tax to be delayed until the start of the new school year so that its impact - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions - Wed 06 Nov 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Irene Campbell (Lab - North Ayrshire and Arran) Member for Central Ayrshire from 1970 until 1983 and was very active in the area. - Speech Link
2: Wendy Morton (Con - Aldridge-Brownhills) with a monumental hike in tuition fees—a tax on aspiration and on young people and their hard-working - Speech Link
3: Caroline Johnson (Con - Sleaford and North Hykeham) that he wanted to abolish tuition fees. - Speech Link
4: None extending the period for which the energy (oil and gas) profits levy has effect until 31 March 2030. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
VAT: Independent Schools - Tue 08 Oct 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Damian Hinds (Con - East Hampshire) , all children at schools whose fees are lower than the average per capita funding for a state school - Speech Link
2: Alicia Kearns (Con - Rutland and Stamford) university, but somehow, when it comes to this issue, we should pay for others? - Speech Link
3: James Frith (Lab - Bury North) in multiple teaching assistants for cover rather than a science teacher for science—if they could find - Speech Link
4: Antonia Bance (Lab - Tipton and Wednesbury) For many, most weeks, the money stretches, just about—until the week when it does not. - Speech Link
5: Darren Paffey (Lab - Southampton Itchen) It has planned for business and they will pass just 4% on to school fees. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
King’s Speech - Fri 19 Jul 2024
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Baroness Smith of Malvern (Lab - Life peer) who have seen nothing but dead ends and closed doors—like the parents who are struggling to pay for - Speech Link
2: Baroness Watkins of Tavistock (XB - Life peer) opportunities, and loan forgiveness for university fees following periods of NHS-funded care service - Speech Link
3: Lord Sharkey (LD - Life peer) We will work with universities to deliver for students and our economy”. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Fraser of Craigmaddie (Con - Life peer) and Dance Scheme for school pupils and the Dance and Drama Award for students. - Speech Link
5: Lord Willetts (Con - Life peer) For students, the main issue is the cash they have to live on while they are at university. - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Higher Education (Industry and Regulators Committee Report) - Tue 21 May 2024
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Lord Mann (Non-affiliated - Life peer) One of the purposes of the Office for Students was to be for students. - Speech Link
2: Lord Willetts (Con - Life peer) One of my regrets is that we call them tuition fees; they are university fees, for all the other activities - Speech Link
3: Lord Storey (LD - Life peer) If students are getting a loan and paying for their university education, they will be in the driving - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Skills: Importance for the UK Economy and Quality of Life - Thu 09 May 2024
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Lord Aberdare (XB - Excepted Hereditary) It has developed a universal framework resource for teaching and assessing these, which is being used - Speech Link
2: Lord Hampton (XB - Excepted Hereditary) We are all aware that students lack the skills for life today. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Fairhead (XB - Life peer) 10 years, which is a long time for the current students to wait. - Speech Link
4: Earl of Effingham (Con - Excepted Hereditary) The existing status quo is centred on teaching for exams that students will sit, but that is not necessarily - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Mon 11 Mar 2024
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Robert Halfon (Con - Harlow) determining the student finance arrangements that apply to students eligible for funding. - Speech Link
2: Robert Halfon (Con - Harlow) million welfare support fund, which we give to the Office for Students to ensure that students with - Speech Link
3: Matt Western (Lab - Warwick and Leamington) Even in Scotland, there will be a £2,500 special support loan for all students. - Speech Link
4: Robert Halfon (Con - Harlow) I am proud that we have a record number of students going to university. - Speech Link
5: Robert Halfon (Con - Harlow) scheme when students apply for university or apprenticeships. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Higher Education - Thu 07 Mar 2024
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Baroness Blackstone (Lab - Life peer) While high fees have not been a disincentive so far for most students, they have for some, notably part-time - Speech Link
2: Baroness Garden of Frognal (LD - Life peer) The University of the Arts London, with its six component colleges, for instance, has over 22,000 students - Speech Link
3: Lord Howarth of Newport (Lab - Life peer) Then, in 2017, they froze tuition fees for domestic students, which accounted for half the funding of - Speech Link
4: Lord Shipley (LD - Life peer) They pay high fees and enable fees for UK students to be lower than they otherwise would be. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Building an NHS Fit for the Future - Mon 13 Nov 2023
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Amy Callaghan (SNP - East Dunbartonshire) agreed to waive their tuition fees so that they can finish their studies. - Speech Link
2: Caroline Johnson (Con - Sleaford and North Hykeham) of synthetic biology at Cambridge University—they will lead global clinical research—for a little over - Speech Link
3: Barbara Keeley (Lab - Worsley and Eccles South) Compare that paltry target with parts of Germany, where secondary school students study music for at - Speech Link
4: Rebecca Long Bailey (Lab - Salford and Eccles) They should listen to calls from the Royal College of Nursing to forgive tuition debt for all current - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill
Committee stage - Mon 14 Nov 2022
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Duke of Wellington (CB - Excepted Hereditary) Students; I would say that it is too powerful already.However, we do have the Office for Students, and - Speech Link
2: Baroness Falkner of Margravine (CB - Life peer) I will wait until Report for that. - Speech Link
3: Lord Willetts (CON - Life peer) the Office for Students rather than more civil litigation. - Speech Link
4: None fees in the definition of overseas funding and ensure that the Office for Students has a duty to monitor - Speech Link
5: Baroness Barran (CON - Life peer) of speech and academic freedom at the Office for Students. - Speech Link