Covid-19: Educational Settings Debate

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Department: Department for Education

Covid-19: Educational Settings

Wera Hobhouse Excerpts
Wednesday 6th January 2021

(3 years, 11 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Gavin Williamson Portrait Gavin Williamson
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We would encourage that university student to stay where they are, in order to be able to conduct their remote learning, although obviously university students who are not doing practical subjects should not have returned to university at this stage.

Wera Hobhouse Portrait Wera Hobhouse (Bath) (LD) [V]
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Students in Bath and across the country feel massively let down. They are paying full tuition fees on top of rent for accommodation that they are not allowed to live in—we have just heard that answer from the Secretary of State. I am aware that this question has been asked several times already this afternoon, but we have not had a proper answer yet, so will the Secretary of State now commit to the rapid implementation of a review of this academic year, with the power to make recommendations for financial compensation?

Gavin Williamson Portrait Gavin Williamson
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I refer the hon. Lady to the answer I gave some moments ago.