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Debate on bill on Monday, 23 June 2008, in the House of Commons.

Sale of Student Loans Bill

Sale of Student Loans Bill. Programme motion on proceedings on consideration of Lords amendments and subsequent stages. Agreed to on question. Lords amendments considered. Lords amendments 1-16 agreed to.

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Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
478 c56-79 
Session
2007-08
Department
Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills
Legislative stage
Lords amendments
Procedure
Programme motions
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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Proceeding contributions
Speaker | 478 c57 (Link to this contribution) I must draw the House's attention to the fact that privilege is involved in Lords amendments Nos. 2,...
Rob Wilson | 478 c59-61 (Link to this contribution) It seems quite a long time ago that we were last here debating this Bill. In fact, it was last Janua...
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Stephen Williams | 478 c62 (Link to this contribution) May I associate myself with the outbreak of friendly relations between the Government and Conservati...
John Hayes | 478 c62 (Link to this contribution) An audit trail will be necessary. The position could become quite convoluted over time as debts are ...
Stephen Williams | 478 c62-3 (Link to this contribution) I agree that it is important to have accurate records—and also for them not to be lost by anyone. Ho...
Bill Rammell | 478 c63 (Link to this contribution) We have had a constructive debate. First, let me confirm that the proposition in Lords amendment No....
Bill Rammell | 478 c63-4 (Link to this contribution) I cannot give an off-the-cuff response, but the hon. Gentleman has asked me several written parliame...
Stephen Williams | 478 c63 (Link to this contribution) What is the Minister's assessment of the current state of the SLC database? For how many borrowers i...
Rob Wilson | 478 c64 (Link to this contribution) I seek the reassurance that there will be no cross-checking of graduates' addresses through Her Maje...
Bill Rammell | 478 c64 (Link to this contribution) There are very clear arrangements for the transfer of data between the SLC and HMRC, which I set out...
Lord Redwood | 478 c64 (Link to this contribution) Is the Minister saying that there will be compensation from Government funds if the borrower is inad...
Bill Rammell | 478 c64-5 (Link to this contribution) In those circumstances, the Government would have to respond very quickly and put that right. In dea...
John Hayes | 478 c65 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move amendment (a) to the Lords amendment.
Bill Rammell | 478 c64 (Link to this contribution) If there is a technical infringement that puts the borrower in a worse position, the Government will...
John Hayes | 478 c64 (Link to this contribution) I shall intervene before the hon. Gentleman moves on, as he might want to amend what he is about to ...
John Hayes | 478 c68 (Link to this contribution) I am happy to give way to my right hon. Friend, who is a great authority on these things.
John Hayes | 478 c65-7 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps I might start by again echoing the spirit evoked by the hon. Member for Bristol, West (Steph...
Speaker | 478 c65 (Link to this contribution) With this it will be convenient to consider Lords amendment No. 3, Lords amendment No. 7, amendment ...
Bill Rammell | 478 c57-9 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman. One can always sense when constructive engagement has taken place becaus...
John Hayes | 478 c57 (Link to this contribution) May I take this opportunity, even though it is very early in the Minister's speech, to pay him the c...
Bill Rammell | 478 c57 (Link to this contribution) Before I start on the detail of the amendments, I should like to place on record my appreciation of ...
Speaker | 478 c57 (Link to this contribution) With this, it will be convenient to consider Lords amendments Nos. 4 to 6, 8 and amendment (a) there...
Bill Rammell | 478 c57 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That this House agrees with the Lords in the said amendment.
John Hayes | 478 c79 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the Minister's remarks. He is right: this has been a model of good parliamentary d...
Bill Rammell | 478 c78-9 (Link to this contribution) Absolutely; that is my commitment on the record. Amendments Nos. 11 to 14 make drafting changes to ...
John Hayes | 478 c78 (Link to this contribution) The Minister is being typically generous, but will he clarify this point? I appreciate that the Gove...
John Hayes | 478 c69-70 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend's lucidity is matched only by his assiduity. He makes his point with a force th...
Stephen Williams | 478 c72-3 (Link to this contribution) The Conservative Front-Bench spokesman, with some help from a distinguished Back Bencher, the right ...
John Hayes | 478 c71-2 (Link to this contribution) That would be nirvana, a perfect outcome. We would support the Bill with alacrity on the basis that ...
Lord Redwood | 478 c68 (Link to this contribution) There are two ways of securing a more attractive selling price. The first is legitimate: the Governm...
Lord Redwood | 478 c69 (Link to this contribution) Has my hon. Friend put it to the Minister that selling a book of loans in the middle of a credit cru...
John Hayes | 478 c68-9 (Link to this contribution) The tension between those two imperatives lies at the heart of the matter. I do not wish to complica...
Bill Rammell | 478 c73 (Link to this contribution) For clarity's sake, is the hon. Gentleman advocating an annual uprating of the threshold?
Stephen Williams | 478 c73-4 (Link to this contribution) It should certainly be considered. The Minister will be aware, as I am—I represent a constituency wi...
John Hayes | 478 c74 (Link to this contribution) I presume that those matters could be considered by the Public Accounts Committee, for example. Inde...
Bill Rammell | 478 c76-7 (Link to this contribution) I think that I answered the hon. Gentleman's point. We have made it clear throughout that we expect ...
John Hayes | 478 c76 (Link to this contribution) I think that the Minister may have misunderstood my first intervention; perhaps I did not make it cl...
Bill Rammell | 478 c76 (Link to this contribution) As I have made clear throughout the proceedings on the Bill, we expect the terms and conditions to b...
John Hayes | 478 c76 (Link to this contribution) The Minister has been clear about the reasons. If a Minister acted in the way that he describes, ter...
Bill Rammell | 478 c75-6 (Link to this contribution) This group of amendments deals with the process by which the Government may give undertakings concer...
Stephen Williams | 478 c74-5 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman's point is helpful, I am sure. None the less, the independence of the Public Acco...
John Hayes | 478 c74 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has made an extremely strong point. Will the Government encourage the National Au...
Stephen Williams | 478 c74 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman's intervention anticipated my next point. As I said on Report back in January, we...
Rob Wilson | 478 c77 (Link to this contribution) He is no longer in his place.
Bill Rammell | 478 c77-8 (Link to this contribution) Indeed. The phrase, ““No longer with us””, has another interpretation that I did not for a minute wi...
Lord Redwood | 478 c71 (Link to this contribution) I would have thought that the ideal outcome would be for the Government to pass the legislation but ...
Stephen Williams | 478 c63 (Link to this contribution) I am glad we agree on that. The insertion of the phrase ““aim to”” suggests that the Government can...
John Hayes | 478 c63 (Link to this contribution) I suspect that that is exactly what will happen. The debts of those with a secure record of repaymen...
Subjects
Disclosure of information Data protection Cost effectiveness Graduates Privatisation Loans Sales Repayments Students Revenue and Customs Student Loans Company
Legislation
Sale of Student Loans Bill 2007-08
Link
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