Results 1-14 of 14 for ("top up" fees) speaker:Iain Duncan Smith

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (9 Jul 2003)

Mr Iain Duncan Smith: ...they will be voting against him tomorrow. After last night's massive Labour rebellion on foundation hospitals, can the Prime Minister say whether he intends to press ahead with the legislation on top-up fees?

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (9 Jul 2003)

Mr Iain Duncan Smith: Well, can the Prime Minister now tell the House whether he intends to rely on the votes of Scottish Labour MPs, even though top-up fees, like foundation hospitals, have been rejected by his own party in Scotland?

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (9 Jul 2003)

Mr Iain Duncan Smith: ...affected by this change to drive through his legislation for England. He is ploughing on, despite the fact that every single Labour MP stood on a manifesto that said that they would not introduce top-up fees. Is that not the reason why he has lost the trust of both the British people and, increasingly, his own party? Nobody believes a word he says any more.

Budget Resolutions — Amendment of the Law (9 Apr 2003)

Mr Iain Duncan Smith: ...measures in the right hon. Gentleman's Budget, particularly those to counter terrorism and to combat world poverty and poor education in deprived areas. We shall certainly give them welcome and support in as far as we possibly can. During the past six years we have come to learn that the Chancellor's Budget speeches are characterised as much by what they conceal as by what they disclose....

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (5 Feb 2003)

Mr Iain Duncan Smith: ...person and every company will pay for his broken promise. He also wrote, in his manifesto that "our guiding rule" is to "deliver what we promise." On asylum, on tax, on crime, on pensions, on top-up fees, on Lords reform and on anything else, he has broken his promise and failed to deliver. The fact is that that publication should be entered for the Booker prize, because everyone knows...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (22 Jan 2003)

Mr Iain Duncan Smith: ...the access regulator an interfering, social engineering, politically correct waste of time and money? Was that not the price the right hon. Gentleman had to pay to get the Chancellor to accept his top-up fees?

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (4 Dec 2002)

Mr Iain Duncan Smith: Does the Prime Minister agree with his Chancellor that top-up fees would prevent young people from low-income families from going to university, and are therefore a ridiculous idea?

Debate on the Address — [First Day] (13 Nov 2002)

Mr Iain Duncan Smith: It really is a shame when Labour Back Benchers have to get up to defend the disaster of those on the Front Bench, who have plunged A-levels into crisis. I am aware also that the brand new Education Secretary recently said that the problem is that the Government have introduced XToo many initiatives in too many directions." He must have been thinking of the 4,500 regulations that the...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (6 Nov 2002)

Mr Iain Duncan Smith: ...Prime Minister in welcoming any such resolution that will deliver peace in that region and also the full disarmament of Iraq. Will the Prime Minister now rule out legislation in this Parliament for top-up fees—yes or no?

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (6 Nov 2002)

Mr Iain Duncan Smith: The Prime Minister did not answer the question. I specifically asked him if he would rule out legislating in this Parliament for top-up fees. Will he, yes or no?

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (6 Nov 2002)

Mr Iain Duncan Smith: Before the last election, the Prime Minister said: XWe will not introduce 'top-up' fees". The Prime Minister's answer today indicates clearly to students up and down the country that, because he will not rule out legislation in this Parliament, he will introduce top-up fees costing them thousands of pounds. How can any family believe a word that he ever says?

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

Mr Iain Duncan Smith: The Labour manifesto said: XWe will not introduce top-up fees". Does the Prime Minister still stand by that promise—yes or no?

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

Mr Iain Duncan Smith: If the Prime Minister stands by that specific promise in his manifesto, can he say why the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, when asked on Saturday to rule out top-up fees, did not rule them out? Should students believe the Secretary of State or the Prime Minister?

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

Mr Iain Duncan Smith: The right hon. Gentleman starts by pledging himself to his manifesto, and then he starts to fudge. Let me remind him of what the manifesto said: XWe will not introduce top-up fees and have legislated to prevent them". However, on Saturday, the Secretary of State for Education and Skills was asked a direct question: XDo you rule out top-up fees?" He said, XNo". The Prime Minister cannot have...