Paul Blomfield
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ONS Decisions: Student Loans
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Elizabeth Truss
We do not want to cap student numbers. We have been clear about that as part of the Augar review.
Paul Blomfield (Sheffield Central) (Lab)
The ONS decision has exposed what many of us have argued since 2010: the Government’s funding system is based on an accounting trick that imposes debt on students and the public purse. The truth is that there is no cost-free way of funding higher education, but the danger is that the Government will respond to the ONS decision by reducing their own liability at the expense of students and universities. Does the Chief Secretary agree that Philip Augar should not be deflected and that we need a comprehensive review of the student funding system that takes account of students from low-income households, part-time and mature students, nurses and midwifery students, and further education?