Clause 23 - Condition that may be requried to be imposed by English funding bodies
Higher Education Bill
11:00 am
Mr Phil Willis (Shadow Secretary of State for Education and Skills, Education & Skills; Harrogate and Knaresborough, Liberal Democrat)
Perhaps we could get a grant for some heating this afternoon.
I hope that we do not run the equivalent of a class war during this debate. It is not about one group of students. The hon. Gentleman will agree that a significant number of students, particularly over the last two decades, are going to university not from wealthy families but from families on marginal incomes. They will not receive significant grant aid under the Bill. We must not roll back the clock and penalise the very people, who through their own endeavours, have fought to get their sons and daughters into university.