Sixth-Form Colleges (VAT)
Debate between Hugh Bayley and Peter Bottomley(11 years ago)
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Sir Peter Bottomley (Worthing West) (Con)
I am sorry that I missed the earlier remarks about 18-year-olds and the £700 cut in funding, which will mostly affect people in poorer postcodes. Does my hon. Friend the Minister accept that if the schools budget was increased by 0.8% rather than 1%, there would have been no need for a 17.5% cut in 18-plus funding to Worthing college and other sixth-form colleges?
Hugh Bayley (in the Chair)
Order. The Minister having sat down, I am bringing this debate to an end.
I want to put on record—an unadvisable thing to do to any statement from the Chair—that more than 20 Members were present for a half-hour debate, which is extremely unusual and indicates the importance that many hon. Members attach to the subject. I apologise to the Minister and the hon. Member for Wigan (Lisa Nandy) for the manner in which the debate was interrupted by a Division in the House.