Clause 23 - Condition that may be required to be imposed by English funding bodies
Higher Education Bill
9:30 am
Mr David Chaytor (Bury North, Labour)
That is precisely what I was trying to explain two minutes ago. The proposal it is not about financial compensation, but cultural compensation, because the deterrent is not primarily financial; it is cultural. The logic of giving the grant to those whose family incomes fall within a comparatively narrow band is to overcome the deterrence of culture—of being brought up in a family in which there is no understanding or experience of going to university. That is the issue.