Clause 23 - Condition that may be required to be imposed by English funding bodies
Higher Education Bill
9:45 am
Mr David Chaytor (Bury North, Labour)
If the hon. Lady's argument is that the target should be 100 per cent., can she explain why the previous Conservative Government capped student numbers in higher education at about 36 per cent.? Would she accept—given that the current rate is 43 per cent., and that the rate increased by 1 percentage point for each of the last seven years—that it is reasonable to conclude that it will increase by 1 percentage point for each of the next seven years, so the target of 50 per cent. will inevitably be met?