Student Tuition Fees and Maintenance Loans

Lord Blunkett Excerpts

Tuesday 18th December 2018 Lords Chamber

[Lord Bates]

I cannot confirm that number: I will have to look at it. The reality with these things is that we set them out, we follow the rules set down by the ONS and the OBR and we report accordingly in the Budget Statements.

[Lord Blunkett (Lab)]

My Lords, will the Minister responsible actually confirm that should the Augar report recommend a reduction in the amount of student loan to £6,500, the amount that the ONS reclassification would result in would thereby be much smaller, but the majority of students would actually pay exactly the same amount, thereby disadvantaging universities without advantaging students?

[Lord Bates]

I am sure that, for all those reasons, those arguments will be taken into account by the Augar review.