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Higher Education

Secondary information

Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

517 c293-315WH 

Session

2010-12

Department

Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

Chamber / Committee

Westminster Hall

Proceeding contributions

Speaker | 517 c315WH (Link to this contribution) Order. We must now bring the debate to a conclusion.

Roberta Blackman-Woods | 517 c315WH (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister give way?

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John Hayes | 517 c315WH (Link to this contribution) I cannot give way; I do not have time. I apologise. We will continue to support the arts through the...

John Hayes | 517 c315WH (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman was not the Minister when funding for Aimhigher was at its highest, but he ...

Gareth Thomas | 517 c314WH (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister give way?

John Hayes | 517 c314WH (Link to this contribution) It is more the case that people who get advice and guidance derive the wherewithal that turns their ...

David Lammy | 517 c315WH (Link to this contribution) Let me put on the record that I was not the Minister in 2007. We increased the widening participatio...

John Hayes | 517 c315WH (Link to this contribution) I will not. I am terribly sorry, but I want to make progress. A lot has been said about Aimhigher. I...

Paul Farrelly | 517 c313WH (Link to this contribution) This will be very brief, Mr Betts. The price paid for a degree sends a market signal to employers th...

John Hayes | 517 c314WH (Link to this contribution) I rather suspect that that depends on the degree. There is much more evidence to suggest that degree...

Sheila Gilmore | 517 c314WH (Link to this contribution) No one would disagree with the need to improve attainment, but I do not think that those issues are ...

Gareth Thomas | 517 c306WH (Link to this contribution) Will my hon. Friend join me in asking for more clarity from the Minister about what will happen to t...

Baroness Berger | 517 c306WH (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for asking that relevant question. Given the fraction of money that will go f...

Baroness Berger | 517 c305-6WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend has made exactly the point I wanted to make, so I thank him. Many of my constituents...

Paul Blomfield | 517 c306-7WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a good point. There is a further message within the Government's announcement, ...

John Hayes | 517 c307WH (Link to this contribution) I know that the hon. Gentleman is a devotee of Steve Smith's words on this subject. This afternoon, ...

Paul Blomfield | 517 c306WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my right hon. Friend the Member for Tottenham (Mr Lammy) on securing the debate. I kn...

Bill Esterson | 517 c306WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is talking about choices, and I want to mention the impact not just on participation ...

Paul Blomfield | 517 c307-8WH (Link to this contribution) That is a very important point on our position in relation to competitors in the OECD. We have made ...

Paul Blomfield | 517 c307WH (Link to this contribution) I understand the messages that the Government have been sending about the available options, and the...

Baroness Berger | 517 c307WH (Link to this contribution) Is my hon. Friend aware that in 2007 we, as a country, spent only 0.67% of GDP on higher education w...

Jonathan Reynolds | 517 c302WH (Link to this contribution) Unfortunately, I am one of those Members of Parliament who are still paying back their student loans...

Sharon Hodgson | 517 c302WH (Link to this contribution) I certainly agree. We should also remember that some of the young people being burdened with huge de...

Gareth Thomas | 517 c302-3WH (Link to this contribution) Following on from the intervention from my hon. Friend the Member for Stalybridge and Hyde (Jonathan...

Sharon Hodgson | 517 c303WH (Link to this contribution) That is an important part of the debate, but it has not been discussed yet, and I certainly hope tha...

Paul Farrelly | 517 c303WH (Link to this contribution) In his intervention, the Minister talked about the importance of encouraging further applications. W...

Sharon Hodgson | 517 c303-4WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a good point. I always tell people that the EMA would have been the one extra t...

Baroness Berger | 517 c304WH (Link to this contribution) I, too, congratulate my right hon. Friend the Member for Tottenham (Mr Lammy) on securing this timel...

Lisa Nandy | 517 c304WH (Link to this contribution) Will my hon. Friend join me in paying tribute to the work of Aimhigher not only on the issues that h...

Nicholas Dakin | 517 c305WH (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend think it is ironic that the Deputy Prime Minister, who was so correct when he sa...

Roberta Blackman-Woods | 517 c299-300WH (Link to this contribution) Once again, I congratulate my right hon. Friend the Member for Tottenham (Mr Lammy) on securing the ...

Paul Uppal | 517 c300WH (Link to this contribution) I, too, thank the right hon. Member for Tottenham (Mr Lammy) for securing this debate on a hugely im...

John Hayes | 517 c298WH (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for giving way a third time—I will not intervene again unl...

David Lammy | 517 c298-9WH (Link to this contribution) I hope that the Minister appreciates the fact that 494 black students of Caribbean descent received ...

David Lammy | 517 c297-8WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right: arts and the creative arts make a huge contribution to our econo...

Sharon Hodgson | 517 c301-2WH (Link to this contribution) I apologise, Mr Betts. The Deputy Prime Minister stated:"““If fees rise to £7,000 a year, as many ru...

Sharon Hodgson | 517 c301WH (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr Betts. I am grateful for this opportunity to speak under your chairmanship on this imp...

Speaker | 517 c301WH (Link to this contribution) Order. The reference should be to the Deputy Prime Minister.

Roberta Blackman-Woods | 517 c300-1WH (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for that intervention, but surely the issue is removing all the barriers ...

Speaker | 517 c301WH (Link to this contribution) I have indications from four hon. Members that they wish to speak. To get everyone in before the win...

David Lammy | 517 c295WH (Link to this contribution) That is, indeed, the fact. I want to emphasise that the increase in young people going into higher e...

Diane Abbott | 517 c295WH (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend makes a very important point about the increased participation of working class...

David Lammy | 517 c295WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a profound point, which I hope to come on to. Such schemes worked, but they req...

Rob Wilson | 517 c295-6WH (Link to this contribution) I do not doubt the previous Government's intentions, and I hope that the right hon. Gentleman would ...

David Lammy | 517 c297WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right. The proposals are a huge departure. The Minister for Universitie...

Roberta Blackman-Woods | 517 c297WH (Link to this contribution) I, too, congratulate my right hon. Friend on this timely debate. On the point he is making, obviousl...

David Lammy | 517 c296WH (Link to this contribution) As I said, we were all concerned about the progress in relation to our most selective universities. ...

John Hayes | 517 c296WH (Link to this contribution) I am intervening so that we can deal with some of the important questions the right hon. Gentleman r...

David Lammy | 517 c296-7WH (Link to this contribution) I hope that the Minister will explain in his response to the debate the detail of that access. As I ...

Nicholas Dakin | 517 c297WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my right hon. Friend on bringing such a timely and pertinent debate to Westminster Ha...

Paul Farrelly | 517 c313WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend the Member for Hackney North and Stoke Newington (Ms Abbott) and I were veterans of t...

John Hayes | 517 c313WH (Link to this contribution) I will happily give way, but I am not going to give way too much because of the time. I want to cove...

Gareth Thomas | 517 c310-2WH (Link to this contribution) It is a privilege to join the debate led by my right hon. Friend the Member for Tottenham (Mr Lammy)...

Speaker | 517 c310WH (Link to this contribution) I thank all Members for their co-operation in ensuring that everyone who wanted to speak had a chanc...

Paul Farrelly | 517 c313WH (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister give way?

John Hayes | 517 c312-3WH (Link to this contribution) It a pleasure to speak in this debate, Mr Betts, and I congratulate the right hon. Member for Totten...

Diane Abbott | 517 c308-9WH (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the chance to take part in this valuable debate. I congratulate my friend and coll...

Speaker | 517 c308WH (Link to this contribution) Before I call the next speaker, I remind Members that I will start the wind-ups at 3.40 pm.

John Hayes | 517 c309WH (Link to this contribution) When did the hon. Lady change her mind about fees, or is she totally, wholly and implacably opposed ...

David Lammy | 517 c293-4WH (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for putting that decision on record. The last Government, of cou...

Rob Wilson | 517 c293WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the right hon. Gentleman on securing this debate on an important subject. I know that...

David Lammy | 517 c294WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is exactly right. That is why France, Germany, America and other countries throughout...

Diane Abbott | 517 c294WH (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend correctly said earlier that all those who could benefit from higher education s...

David Lammy | 517 c294-5WH (Link to this contribution) I have no recollection of the proportion of funding for Aimhigher being reduced. The Aimhigher progr...

John Hayes | 517 c294WH (Link to this contribution) I do not want to interrupt the right hon. Gentleman's flow, and I endorse what he said about our sha...

David Lammy | 517 c293WH (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for this opportunity to continue a hugely important debate. The decision taken by the ...

Speaker | 517 c313WH (Link to this contribution) Order. Interventions are supposed to be brief.

John Hayes | 517 c314WH (Link to this contribution) I will give way once more, and then I must make progress.

Baroness Berger | 517 c305WH (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for that intervention; she raises some valuable points about the fantastic wo...

Diane Abbott | 517 c309-10WH (Link to this contribution) I am afraid that I did not attract the Minister's attention. I have always been against tuition fees...

Paul Farrelly | 517 c295WH (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend agree that the student support that we put in place was important as well?...

Subjects

Admissions Disadvantaged Finance Fees and charges Grants Higher education Low incomes Loans Universities Students Higher Education and Student Finance Independent Review Aimhigher programme

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