Higher Education and Student Finance

Anas Sarwar Excerpts

Tuesday 12th October 2010 Commons Chamber

[Vince Cable]

Anybody going into relatively low-paid employment, whether in a vocational approach to public service or in other ways, will be protected both by the £21,000 threshold and the system of variable interest rates. Many, many people in low-paid occupations will not be required to pay off any accumulated debt. It will be written off at the end of the period as a result of the progressive element built into the proposals.

[Anas Sarwar (Glasgow Central) (Lab)]

As has been said, every single Lib Dem MP signed the pledge—and appeared in a photograph—to vote against any fees increase. The question is: what will they choose—power or principle?