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Higher and Further Education

Debate between Gordon Birtwistle and Tristram Hunt
Tuesday 11th September 2012

(12 years, 3 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Gordon Birtwistle Portrait Gordon Birtwistle
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What would the debt be under a cap of £6,000? Does the hon. Gentleman have many students in his constituency who, with a salary of £1,850 a month, would object to paying back £8 a month?

Tristram Hunt Portrait Tristram Hunt
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I am happy to have taken that intervention, which allows me to say that the debt would be less because we would be charging £6,000 as a cap rather than £9,000.