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Lords Chamber
United Kingdom Internal Market Bill
Committee stage:Committee: 2nd sitting (Hansard) - Wed 28 Oct 2020
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: None The same will apply for university fees. - Speech Link
2: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LDEM - Life peer) If minimum unit pricing changes the level of the price, or if tuition fees continue but their level changes - Speech Link
3: Baroness Noakes (CON - Life peer) That may well be good for the fees of the legal profession—and for the noble and learned Lord, Lord Falconer - Speech Link
4: None fees as the purchase of a good. - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Science Research Funding in Universities (Science and Technology Committee Report) - Wed 09 Sep 2020
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: Baroness Bowles of Berkhamsted (LDEM - Life peer) Giving students value for money and not treating tuition fees as cash cows was a primary concern. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Finlay of Llandaff (CB - Life peer) Tuition fees are essential. Cuts will decrease research activity and student exposure to it. - Speech Link
3: Lord Redesdale (LDEM - Life peer) The problem is, are they there for the teaching of students or are they bodies for the creation of new - Speech Link
4: Baroness Walmsley (LDEM - Life peer) suggested lowering the cap on tuition fees for UK students but did not address the fact that student - Speech Link
5: Lord Watson of Invergowrie (LAB - Life peer) Exact numbers, and therefore losses, will not be known until later this month, but analysis for the University - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Summer Adjournment - Wed 22 Jul 2020
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Nusrat Ghani (CON - Wealden) Who knows where their hair ends up? - Speech Link
2: Fleur Anderson (LAB - Putney) Medical students have been told to provide their own. - Speech Link
3: David Amess (CON - Southend West) We should not have TV licence fees for the over-75s; some of the producers are paid too much. - Speech Link
4: Jonathan Gullis (CON - Stoke-on-Trent North) We will turn some into a teaching school for Staffordshire and Keele universities, and the rest will - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill (Seventh sitting)
Committee stage: 7th sitting - Thu 18 Jun 2020
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Kate Green (LAB - Stretford and Urmston) They bring more than £6.9 billion in income to universities in tuition fees. - Speech Link
2: Stuart C McDonald (SNP - Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East) What steps will the Government take to ensure that students can start courses online with confidence—for - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Education and Local Government - Tue 14 Jan 2020
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Desmond Swayne (CON - New Forest West) university—to limit its intake of Scottish students to 20% of the university population? - Speech Link
2: Carol Monaghan (SNP - Glasgow North West) Despite that, more Scottish students are achieving a university education than ever before. - Speech Link
3: Carol Monaghan (SNP - Glasgow North West) Government will look at abandoning tuition fees altogether. - Speech Link
4: David Davis (CON - Haltemprice and Howden) The truth is that the university tuition fees and loans scheme invented and implemented by the Blair - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Queen’s Speech - Tue 22 Oct 2019
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Baroness Barran (CON - Life peer) the maximum tuition fees rate and increased the threshold for repayments, now worth up to £425 a year - Speech Link
2: Lord Bassam of Brighton (LAB - Life peer) The Conservative-led coalition Government trebled tuition fees, overseeing a system in which the average - Speech Link
3: Baroness Garden of Frognal (LDEM - Life peer) service of our education system, with lower funding and lower pay for staff than for school teachers - Speech Link
4: Lord Berkeley of Knighton (CB - Life peer) Artists visiting this country already accept much lower fees than those offered on the continent. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Public Services - Wed 16 Oct 2019
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Angela Rayner (LAB - Ashton-under-Lyne) And we will scrap tuition fees and bring back maintenance grants. - Speech Link
2: Anne Milton (IND - Guildford) This is on top of the issues that the university and students have raised with me about new students - Speech Link
3: Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (LAB - Slough) system, a national education service, Sure Start Plus, lifelong learning and abolishing tuition fees—a - Speech Link
4: Karen Lee (LAB - Lincoln) The Conservatives have priced aspiring students out of a university education and cut the adult skills - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Social Mobility: Treasury Reform - Tue 11 Jun 2019
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Lyn Brown (LAB - West Ham) I was going to wait until my contribution to respond to the right hon. - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) However, for lower to middle-earner graduates, it is the opposite—Augar raises their overall repayments - Speech Link
3: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) Such examples perpetuate the idea that university is only for the young and for the middle and upper - Speech Link
4: Lyn Brown (LAB - West Ham) the Government’s tuition fees regime. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Equality of Opportunity for Young People - Thu 16 May 2019
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Baroness Fall (CON - Life peer) and a more engaged environment for students, but the problems often start well before university. - Speech Link
2: Lord Dholakia (LDEM - Life peer) Why are there no immediate plans for the UK Government to lower the voting age for general elections? - Speech Link
3: Baroness Prashar (CB - Life peer) Students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds are less likely to go to university and more likely to - Speech Link
4: Lord Bassam of Brighton (LAB - Life peer) This was coupled with the massive tripling of tuition fees in England, which has driven whole generations - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Department for Education - Tue 26 Feb 2019
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Layla Moran (LDEM - Oxford West and Abingdon) How on earth did it take until August 2018 for the funding to finally be cut? - Speech Link
2: Richard Graham (CON - Gloucester) I also ought to refer to the newest university in the country, Hartpury University, in the constituency - Speech Link
3: Carol Monaghan (SNP - Glasgow North West) more pronounced when we focus on sixth-form and further education spending, tuition fees and academies - Speech Link
4: Huw Merriman (CON - Bexhill and Battle) to be helped, they would get behind this system, rather than constantly knocking it for political ends - Speech Link