Higher Education and Student Finance

Barry Gardiner Excerpts

Tuesday 12th October 2010 Commons Chamber

[Mr Speaker]

Order. I am keen to accommodate some more colleagues, but brevity is now of the essence.

[Barry Gardiner (Brent North) (Lab)]

At the beginning of his statement, the Secretary of State commended my right hon. Friend the Member for Southampton, Itchen (Mr Denham) for his integrity in resigning from the previous Administration. Given that the Secretary of State has now told the House that he will not honour his pledge, will he show similar integrity?

[Vince Cable]

I was completely sincere, and I commend the decision that the right hon. Member for Southampton, Itchen took. I hope that he will maintain that tradition of integrity by explaining how the Labour Opposition intend to finance higher education.