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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 13 Nov 2018
Education Funding

"I am pleased to follow the hon. Member for Bethnal Green and Bow (Rushanara Ali). There is a sense of déjà vu in these debates about public services. We have rehearsed these arguments over many years, but I still find it extraordinary that when we try to bring a degree …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 13 Nov 2018
Education Funding

"I am delighted that my hon. Friend is talking about public finance, because we also have to talk about education and look at the record of the previous Labour Administration. In the course of effectively destroying the public finances and leaving us with the biggest deficit in our peacetime history, …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 13 Nov 2018
Education Funding

"Labour Members are shouting because they do not like to hear the truth—it is embarrassing to them.

We looked at reading statistics and we looked at mathematics. The coalition Government that came in in 2010 not only managed to begin to reduce the deficit but drove up standards through the …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 13 Nov 2018
Education Funding

"There have been more than 400, and each of them has been—[Interruption.] The hon. Gentleman scoffs, but each of them has been extremely successful and is driving up standards in its locality.

I was particularly surprised to hear that the shadow Chancellor, the right hon. Member for …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 13 Nov 2018
Education Funding

"Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. I have never, in my eight years in Parliament, actually had a running commentary on any speech, so clearly I must have hit a nerve. It is absolutely extraordinary, this constant chuntering.

The facts are very clear. We have had higher standards in the past …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 13 Nov 2018
Education Funding

"Will my hon. Friend enlighten the House about the fact that all these plans would make no sense if the economy was wrecked once again, as the Labour party is too often wont to do?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 13 Nov 2018
Education Funding

"The reason why I make the same speech every time is that the hon. Gentleman finds it very difficult to appreciate the force of the argument, which he never addresses...."
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Written Question
Career Development Loans
Wednesday 7th November 2018

Asked by: Kwasi Kwarteng (Conservative - Spelthorne)

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans he has to introduce a scheme that provides bank loans to pay for work-related courses and training to replace the Professional and Career Development Loan scheme after that scheme closes in January 2019.

Answered by Anne Milton

The majority of prospective Professional and Career Development Loan (PCDL) borrowers in England now have access to statutory loans such as Advanced Learner Loans, postgraduate master’s loans and doctoral loans. Demand for PCDLs has fallen significantly as a result.

Statutory loans offer better repayment terms and greater protections than PCDLs and access to those is not dependent on an assessment of the applicant’s credit history.

There are therefore no plans to replace PCDLs.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 22 Nov 2016
Education and Social Mobility

"I am very grateful to you, Madam Deputy Speaker, for calling me towards the end of this interesting debate.

I have noticed that there is a gaping hole at the centre of the Opposition’s case on grammar schools. If grammar schools are based on a good principle, why would Labour …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 12 Sep 2016
Schools that work for Everyone

"I am very grateful for my right hon. Friend’s statement, which is an encouraging step in the right direction. Does she share my anxiety and frustration at the fact that so many of the objectors to this scheme are themselves the products of selective education? The French have a saying: …..."
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