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Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (16 Mar 2005)

Mr Tony Blair: What we are doing is introducing—[Interruption.] I am happy to have this debate. What we are doing is getting rid of up-front fees altogether, so no student or their family will have to pay money, top-up or otherwise, as they go through university. Afterwards, they will make a repayment based on their ability to pay. If, for example, a woman raises children or someone is off work for...

Prime Minister: Engagements (28 Jan 2004)

Mr Tony Blair: The existing fee structure was the payment of up-front fees, with no maintenance grant for students, and top-up fees were an unrestricted, existing fee top-up. What is now being introduced is not that at all. What is being introduced is the abolition of up-front fees, so that no family has to pay those up-front fees, with maintenance grants reintroduced for the poorest students and a far...

Prime Minister: Engagements (21 Jan 2004)

Mr Tony Blair: I do not have the precise words in front of me, but I will tell the right hon. and learned Gentleman what we said. [Interruption.] We said we will not introduce top-up fees. In particular, I would point out to him that we are changing the existing fee structure totally, so that people will no longer have to pay up-front fees; instead they will have to pay something when they graduate, on a...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (30 Oct 2002)

Mr Tony Blair: We of course stand by our manifesto, but I do not believe that the issue is top-up fees. The issue is how we ensure that our top universities get the freedom and the independence that they want, and how we make sure that as those universities develop they are able to guarantee access for poorer students. I assure the right hon. Gentleman not merely that we will stand by our manifesto...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagement (7 Feb 2001)

Mr Tony Blair: If the right hon. Gentleman is referring to top-up fees, we have already made it clear that we do not favour top-up fees.

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (26 Jul 2000)

Mr Tony Blair: We have no plans to introduce top-up fees. It is important that we get additional funds into our universities. Therefore, under the spending review we are putting extra money into the university system, which is vastly in excess of anything that he, as a Liberal Democrat, promised his electorate at the last election.

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