Further Education

Alex Salmond Excerpts
Wednesday 18th November 2015

(9 years ago)

Commons Chamber
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Nick Boles Portrait Nick Boles
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I will not give way to the hon. Lady. We heard quite enough from her earlier on. She strangely failed to mention that her party’s Government in Edinburgh have slashed funding for further education and closed colleges in order to subsidise free university education for students who will go on to earn far more than many who graduate from further education colleges. She should be ashamed and keep quiet in our debate.

Alex Salmond Portrait Alex Salmond (Gordon) (SNP)
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Will the Minister give way?

Nick Boles Portrait Nick Boles
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I will not give way to the right hon. Gentleman. [Interruption.] I will not give way.

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Nick Boles Portrait Nick Boles
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I might well have given way to the right hon. Gentleman if he had attended any of the debate apart from his own intervention.

Alex Salmond Portrait Alex Salmond
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On a point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker. I am sure that the Minister—if he is that—did not mean to mislead the House, but if he checks the record, I think he will find that funding for further education in Scotland is immeasurably superior to funding for further education in England.

Lindsay Hoyle Portrait Mr Deputy Speaker
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The right hon. Gentleman has been here over many years. He is back, and I know that he will never ever forget what is, and what is not, a point of order. That was not.