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Adjournment debate on Wednesday, 20 May 2009, in the House of Commons, led by Jeremy Corbyn. The answering member was David Lammy.

London Metropolitan University

Westminster Hall adjournment debate on London Metropolitan University.

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Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
492 c435-57WH 
Session
2008-09
Department
Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills
Chamber / Committee
Westminster Hall
Proceeding contributions
Jeremy Corbyn | 492 c438WH (Link to this contribution) I do not want this debate to turn into speculation about Brian Roper's salary.
Diane Abbott | 492 c438WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend might wish to know that, as I understand it, Mr. Roper's salary is in the vicinity of...
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Jeremy Corbyn | 492 c438WH (Link to this contribution) Because, although it is important and interesting, I am far more concerned about the loss of 550 job...
Jeremy Corbyn | 492 c438WH (Link to this contribution) I do not know what Brian Roper's salary is. I believe that the figure is known, but all I know is th...
Ian Gibson | 492 c438WH (Link to this contribution) Will my hon. Friend communicate to the Chamber what the vice-chancellor's salary might be—vice-chanc...
Adam Afriyie | 492 c436WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes a powerful case about the benefits given to disadvantaged youngsters by the...
Jeremy Corbyn | 492 c436WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right. I am not trying to apportion everything, but I want hon. Members to underst...
Jeremy Corbyn | 492 c436-7WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes a fair point, and as my hon. Friend the Member for Norwich, North (Dr. Gibs...
Mark Field | 492 c437WH (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman accept that what he asserts in relation to London Metropolitan university—I ...
Jeremy Corbyn | 492 c437WH (Link to this contribution) Yes, it applies to other universities and colleges, but the extent of cuts proposed for the London M...
Ian Gibson | 492 c437WH (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that teaching in universities these days has an international aspect? The ...
Jeremy Corbyn | 492 c437-8WH (Link to this contribution) The university has been innovative through many of its special sections, departments and courses. Th...
David Lammy | 492 c455WH (Link to this contribution) I want to finish the entirety of my remarks. I have said that this is a serious situation, and I wan...
David Lammy | 492 c456WH (Link to this contribution) On the last question, I think I have indicated that I have no expectation that that college will go ...
Jeremy Corbyn | 492 c456WH (Link to this contribution) May I bring the Minister back to the redundancies and the financial model under which the university...
David Lammy | 492 c455WH (Link to this contribution) I shall not give way, because I want to make some progress. According to the briefing note that the ...
Diane Abbott | 492 c455-6WH (Link to this contribution) I am anxious that my right hon. Friend completes his speech, but he has spent a fair amount of time ...
David Lammy | 492 c457WH (Link to this contribution) There will, of course, be an independent inquiry, and an inquiry by the National Audit Office into t...
David Lammy | 492 c456-7WH (Link to this contribution) I take seriously the prospect of redundancies and the worrying risks that they place on people. It i...
David Lammy | 492 c454WH (Link to this contribution) Given the breadth of our universities, it will not surprise the hon. Gentleman that the funding coun...
Jeremy Corbyn | 492 c454WH (Link to this contribution) When was the Department first informed of these problems? What was its response to HEFCE and to the ...
David Lammy | 492 c454WH (Link to this contribution) I will deal with all those points in my speech. I would prefer to do it in that way rather than thro...
Emily Thornberry | 492 c454WH (Link to this contribution) May I ask a question? The Minister may address it in the course of his speech. In order to build up ...
David Lammy | 492 c453-4WH (Link to this contribution) I will come to that. The data on student numbers that form the basis for the capitalised teaching g...
Adam Afriyie | 492 c454WH (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for being so generous in giving way. To press my point a little further, the De...
David Lammy | 492 c454WH (Link to this contribution) I hope that I will address that point in my remarks. The difference with London Metropolitan univer...
Diane Abbott | 492 c454WH (Link to this contribution) Does the Minister have reason to believe that at any point when the university started making false ...
David Lammy | 492 c454-5WH (Link to this contribution) I will come to that issue. Non-completion is a significant issue at the university. HEFCE's funding...
Rob Wilson | 492 c455WH (Link to this contribution) I understand the Minister's argument, but does he not find it strange, as I do, that the university ...
Adam Afriyie | 492 c450-1WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate you, Mrs. Dean, on the dynamism of the chairmanship, which changed halfway through th...
Rob Wilson | 492 c451WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my hon. Friend, who is making a powerful case, particularly for the US community coll...
Jeremy Corbyn | 492 c449WH (Link to this contribution) I am pleased that the hon. Gentleman has mentioned the specialist courses, because some of them are ...
Stephen Williams | 492 c449-50WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is right; the university should be congratulated on fulfilling its mission for it...
Stephen Williams | 492 c448-9WH (Link to this contribution) I think that if I had finished my point I would have got to that myself; none the less, that interve...
Adam Afriyie | 492 c453WH (Link to this contribution) The Minister has mentioned that concerns were flagged up in previous inquiries. Were he or his Depar...
Adam Afriyie | 492 c451-3WH (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for that intervention. Perhaps another great benefit of this debate is th...
David Lammy | 492 c453WH (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend the Member for Islington, North (Jeremy Corbyn) for securing this de...
Adam Afriyie | 492 c451WH (Link to this contribution) That is almost the perfect intervention at this point. My hon. Friend and I worked together during h...
Jeremy Corbyn | 492 c451WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is right that the university has a good record with local students, people return...
Jeremy Corbyn | 492 c447WH (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend support the view, which I expressed earlier, that we need the Government to orde...
Emily Thornberry | 492 c446-7WH (Link to this contribution) London Metropolitan is on the edge of my constituency, on the other side of the Holloway road. Many ...
Speaker | 492 c447WH (Link to this contribution) I intend to call the Front-Bench spokespeople now. We have more time than normal, so I intend to div...
Emily Thornberry | 492 c447WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend anticipates my very next point. In the current circumstances, we need a proper inquir...
Diane Abbott | 492 c448WH (Link to this contribution) I am interested to hear the hon. Gentleman say that what the administrators were being asked to do w...
Stephen Williams | 492 c447-8WH (Link to this contribution) I did not intend to take even the 10 minutes that the three spokespersons normally take in the last ...
Diane Abbott | 492 c445-6WH (Link to this contribution) More collaboration may well be part of the answer, but we must get the management and running of Lon...
Ian Gibson | 492 c445WH (Link to this contribution) Given that we often look on universities as regional centres of education, and that students can mov...
Diane Abbott | 492 c446WH (Link to this contribution) The reason why I am so concerned about this issue is that many of the students who have written to m...
Jeremy Corbyn | 492 c446WH (Link to this contribution) In the many letters that my hon. Friend has had from her constituents, has anyone said whether they ...
Lord Field of Birkenhead | 492 c443WH (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend makes a valid case. It is fair to say that a number of universities—Thames Vall...
Iain Duncan Smith | 492 c442WH (Link to this contribution) I do not want to detain my hon. Friend for very long, but I want to make a point. He has talked abou...
Mark Field | 492 c442WH (Link to this contribution) I suppose that was putting my foot in it. I was at St. Edmund hall, which is not a terribly wealthy ...
Ian Gibson | 492 c441WH (Link to this contribution) I have to rise to the bait. The hon. Gentleman did not name his college. Will he tell me how poor it...
Diane Abbott | 492 c444-5WH (Link to this contribution) I do not dispute what the hon. Gentleman has said. As I have said, there was a degree of collusion b...
Rob Wilson | 492 c444WH (Link to this contribution) I asked the hon. Member for Islington, North (Jeremy Corbyn) why the drop-out figures, which the hon...
Diane Abbott | 492 c443-4WH (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the opportunity to speak in this important debate. A great many of my constituent...
Mark Field | 492 c441WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Member for Islington, North (Jeremy Corbyn) on securing this important debat...
Jeremy Corbyn | 492 c440-1WH (Link to this contribution) Not at all. Some weeks ago, I had a very useful meeting with Professor David Eastwood, the former ch...
Ian Gibson | 492 c440WH (Link to this contribution) I guess my hon. Friend may be able to help me in this matter. The head of the HEFC is now moving to ...
Jeremy Corbyn | 492 c439WH (Link to this contribution) That is a very fair point. Clearly, a relatively small but specialised department, such as the one t...
Iain Duncan Smith | 492 c438-9WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Gentleman on securing this debate. Last week, I attempted to bring together ...
Jeremy Corbyn | 492 c439-40WH (Link to this contribution) That is a very interesting question—I am looking for the answer myself. It has been reported in the ...
Rob Wilson | 492 c439WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Gentleman on securing this debate. Due to my former job as shadow Minister f...
Diane Abbott | 492 c436WH (Link to this contribution) I appreciate the background of students at London Metropolitan university—many come from my constitu...
Jeremy Corbyn | 492 c435-6WH (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for that intervention. I agree with thrust of what he says, and I shall r...
Bob Spink | 492 c435WH (Link to this contribution) I am delighted that the hon. Gentleman has secured this debate, and I entirely agree with him. He wi...
Jeremy Corbyn | 492 c435WH (Link to this contribution) I am pleased to have the opportunity to debate the London Metropolitan university. It is with great ...
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Access Disadvantaged Finance Standards Universities Students London Metropolitan University
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