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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


Commons Chamber
UK Export Performance - Mon 18 Sep 2023
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Nigel Huddleston (CON - Mid Worcestershire) and better targeting our resources to support businesses and drive growth. - Speech Link
2: Nigel Huddleston (CON - Mid Worcestershire) Vietnam’s growing economy, from the British Council expanding education opportunities for Vietnamese students - Speech Link
3: Kirsty Blackman (SNP - Aberdeen North) in my constituency, continue to have access to those research grants. - Speech Link
4: Kevin Hollinrake (CON - Thirsk and Malton) £12.2 billion of finance to more than 96,000 small businesses, including more than 100,000 start-up loans - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Lifelong Learning (Higher Education Fee Limits) Bill
Report stage - Tue 05 Sep 2023
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Baroness Garden of Frognal (LDEM - Life peer) The Liberal Democrats have called for grants, rather than loans, to encourage adult reskilling, concerned - Speech Link
2: None It might arguably, therefore, improve confidence on the part of students and potential students in future - Speech Link
3: None disabled students, students from ethnic minorities and those from lower-income backgrounds. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Barran (CON - Life peer) , as will targeted support grants such as the disabled students’ allowance and the childcare grant. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Credit Unions and the Cost of Living - Tue 18 Jul 2023
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Hannah Bardell (SNP - Livingston) Over the last 50 years, credit unions have grown to provide loans and savings to more than 1.2 million - Speech Link
2: Hannah Bardell (SNP - Livingston) credit unions, but some fall victim to unscrupulous lending practices, such as high-interest payday loans - Speech Link
3: Hannah Bardell (SNP - Livingston) resilience fund, which provided grants and loans totalling more than £20 million, made available to - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Lifelong Learning (Higher Education Fee Limits) Bill - Mon 10 Jul 2023
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Baroness Barran (CON - Life peer) engineering, and help students to succeed.We provide support for the sector through subsidised fee loans - Speech Link
2: Baroness Garden of Frognal (LDEM - Life peer) The cost of setting up the Student Loans Company and chasing down students all had to be put in the negative - Speech Link
3: Baroness Barran (CON - Life peer) enables distance learners with a disability to qualify for maintenance loans and disabled students’ - Speech Link
4: Baroness Barran (CON - Life peer) Government are working jointly with the Student Loans Company and the Office for Students throughout - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Adult and Further Education - Wed 05 Jul 2023
Scotland Office

Mentions:
1: Edward Timpson (CON - Eddisbury) It has 1,900 students aged 16 to 18, 360 adult students, 550 apprentices and 130 students with high needs - Speech Link
2: Munira Wilson (LDEM - Twickenham) amounts to a near absolute ban on colleges borrowing from banks, making them solely reliant on Government grants - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Co-operatives and Alternative Businesses: Local Authority Support - Tue 20 Jun 2023
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Christina Rees (IND - Neath) They offer grants, loans and other forms of financial assistance to help those enterprises get off the - Speech Link
2: Beth Winter (LAB - Cynon Valley) Community Bank, which will enable local people to access loans and other financial services and is similar - Speech Link
3: Chris Stephens (SNP - Glasgow South West) They help people to save and take out affordable loans. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Lifelong Learning (Higher Education Fee Limits) Bill
2nd reading - Mon 19 Jun 2023
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Baroness Garden of Frognal (LDEM - Life peer) Would high-cost modules attract pro rata teaching grants? - Speech Link
2: Lord Stevens of Birmingham (CB - Life peer) As I understand it, the Department for Education and OFS short courses trial has so far advanced loans - Speech Link
3: Earl of Dundee (CON - Excepted Hereditary) In 2020, Erasmus+ spent €144.25 million in the UK on grants for learning abroad and €83.22 million on - Speech Link
4: Baroness Barran (CON - Life peer) level 4 and 5 courses do not currently qualify for the maintenance loans. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Illegal Migration Bill
Committee stage: Part 2 - Wed 14 Jun 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Hamwee (LDEM - Life peer) The frustration and distress mount and mount. - Speech Link
2: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (CON - Life peer) and the designation and operation of safe and legal routes, are part and parcel of this strategic function - Speech Link
3: Baroness Neuberger (CB - Life peer) asylum seekers to access education, which they otherwise could not do because they cannot get student loans - Speech Link
4: Lord Bishop of Durham (Bishops - Bishops) In fact, Clause 10 grants the Secretary of State the power to detain people “in any place” that she “ - Speech Link