Richard Tice
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Richard Tice ExcerptsWednesday 7th January 2026
(3 days, 1 hour ago)
Commons ChamberRead Full debate Student Finance (Review of Payment Schedules) Bill 2024-26 View all Student Finance (Review of Payment Schedules) Bill 2024-26 Debates Read Hansard Text
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Mr Charters
Yes, I know—my grey hair and tired eyes from my two amazing young boys make me look just a little bit older. It is this Labour Government who are giving younger people a better deal: votes at 16; better wages and rights for student workers; and bringing back targeted maintenance grants. Of course, on the latter, we should always be looking to go that bit further. Reform Members just do not care about young people. They want to cut their wages—
Mr Charters
Well, they want to cut the national minimum wage for young people. What a scandal! The Greens are peddling false hope to students and have no realistic plan to help with the cost of living. Their Members are not even here today. And this entire mess is totally of the Tory-led coalition Government’s making—the one I went to university under, by the way. We must help students with the cost of living so that they can live up to their full potential, rather than having a terrible experience at uni because they are struggling to make ends meet. So let us make a simple fix to the timings of maintenance loans to support millions of students up and down the country.
Question put and agreed to.
Ordered,
That Mr Luke Charters, Adam Jogee, Abtisam Mohamed, Tom Hayes, Pam Cox, Luke Myer, Mike Reader, Sarah Russell, Gareth Snell, Afzal Khan, Sam Carling and Dr Jeevun Sandher present the Bill.
Mr Luke Charters accordingly presented the Bill.
Bill read the First time; to be read a Second time on Friday 16 January, and to be printed (Bill 357).