Clause 22 - Power of Secretary of State to impose condition as to student fees, etc.
Higher Education Bill
9:10 am
Mr Roger Gale (North Thanet, Conservative)
I should have said at the start of the proceedings that the hon. Member for Epsom and Ewell indicated to me most courteously that he might have to leave the Committee at some point during the morning for reasons that I know we all understand. If he does so, he will take the Committee's good wishes with him to his wife.
We now come to clause 23. The Committee has got used to my unsubtle ways by now. As this is a complex issue and the amendments are inter-related, I shall allow a fairly wide-ranging debate on the understanding that there will almost certainly be no stand part debate. However, that is not carte blanche to have another Second Reading debate on the Bill. I expect remarks to be confined to the clause, if only because other important matters arise later in the Bill.