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Lords Chamber
Student Loan Interest Rates - Wed 27 Mar 2024
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Baroness Barran (Con - Life peer) that under the new plan 5 loans 61% of new full-time borrowers will repay their loans in full, with - Speech Link
2: Lord Alton of Liverpool (XB - Life peer) look instead at the Scottish model and also at the position of EU students on pre-settled and settled - Speech Link
3: Baroness Barran (Con - Life peer) We have continued to increase the maximum loans and grants for living costs each year, with the most - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Higher Education - Thu 07 Mar 2024
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Baroness Blackstone (Lab - Life peer) Instead, government grants to universities to support their teaching and various innovations in their - Speech Link
2: Baroness Garden of Frognal (LD - Life peer) At Edinburgh University, for instance, its community grants scheme gives £618,000 worth of support to - Speech Link
3: Lord Howarth of Newport (Lab - Life peer) We know that a significant proportion of loans will not be repaid. - Speech Link
4: Lord Watson of Invergowrie (Lab - Life peer) , including distance learners, either through an extension of maintenance loans or the introduction of - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Higher Education (Student Finance and Skills Shortages)
1st reading - Tue 27 Feb 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Lia Nici (Con - Great Grimsby) believe that I have an insight into what motivates students to study to degree level and beyond. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Arts - Thu 01 Feb 2024
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Lord Vaizey of Didcot (Con - Life peer) to museums, the grants through the Arts Council, the BBC itself, the tax credits which extend from film - Speech Link
2: Baroness Garden of Frognal (LD - Life peer) teachers and students alike.We know that the Government are pressed for money, with health, education - Speech Link
3: Lord Wood of Anfield (Lab - Life peer) options, or even core arts and music options, for their students. - Speech Link
4: Lord Browne of Madingley (XB - Life peer) For many years, I have been a patron of Paintings in Hospitals, a charity which loans artworks to health - Speech Link
5: Lord Grantchester (Lab - Excepted Hereditary) DCMS grants have grown by 4%.However, great things are happening. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Hospitality Sector: Fiscal Support - Wed 31 Jan 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Rachael Maskell (LAB - York Central) with health workers and so on, and the students; that also takes its toll. - Speech Link
2: Wera Hobhouse (LD - Bath) grants covering 80% of the increase in their energy bills for one year, giving small hospitality businesses - Speech Link
3: Nigel Huddleston (Con - Mid Worcestershire) that this sector is not just about part-time jobs for students or young people; we should not forget - Speech Link
4: Rachael Maskell (LAB - York Central) In my speech I mentioned the extension of covid loans for businesses that have those loans. - Speech Link


Written Statements
Higher Education Student Support - Thu 25 Jan 2024
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Robert Halfon (Con - Harlow) Maximum grants for students with child or adult dependants who are attending full-time undergraduate - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Healthcare Students: Pay and Financial Support - Mon 20 Nov 2023
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Marsha De Cordova (Lab - Battersea) package of tuition fee and maintenance loans, whereas students in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
COP28 - Thu 16 Nov 2023
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Deidre Brock (SNP - Edinburgh North and Leith) for mitigation and adaptation—and it must be in the form of grants not loans. - Speech Link
2: Fleur Anderson (Lab - Putney) and non-economic losses and damage. - Speech Link
3: Graham Stuart (Con - Beverley and Holderness) We provide the majority of our climate finance in the form of much-needed grants rather than loans—which - Speech Link
4: Kerry McCarthy (Lab - Bristol East) There are currently some very good initiatives: for example, science students from the UK are going out - Speech Link
5: Graham Stuart (Con - Beverley and Holderness) We will need oil and gas in 2050 and beyond. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 14 Nov 2023
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Laurence Robertson (Con - Tewkesbury) assessment he has made of the potential impact of inflation on the ability of graduates to repay student loans - Speech Link
2: Laurence Robertson (Con - Tewkesbury) One of the things we could do is raise the threshold at which they start to pay back the loans. - Speech Link
3: Laura Trott (Con - Sevenoaks) I would also point to the cost of living support that the Department for Education is providing for students - Speech Link
4: Jeremy Hunt (Con - South West Surrey) I have had meetings with him and her, and with many others, to discuss it. - Speech Link
5: Jeremy Hunt (Con - South West Surrey) spring 2020, had prevented the payment of or recovered the overpayment of more than £1.6 billion of grants - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Further and Higher Education Students: Cost of Living - Tue 19 Sep 2023
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Ian Byrne (LAB - Liverpool, West Derby) cuts to students’ maintenance loans. - Speech Link
2: Daniel Zeichner (LAB - Cambridge) loans and University and College bursaries have been largely stagnant. - Speech Link
3: Alex Sobel (LAB - Leeds North West) Even after receiving maintenance loans and bursaries, students in Leeds North West, and up and down the - Speech Link
4: Robert Halfon (CON - Harlow) grants on top of that, of course. - Speech Link
5: Robert Halfon (CON - Harlow) per annum, and doctoral students can apply for loans of £28,000.My hon. - Speech Link