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Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (17 Dec 2003)

Mr Gordon Marsden: Does the Prime Minister share my concern that in all the focus on and debate about tuition fees, there is a danger of losing sight of the genuine benefits that the Government promise part-time and continuing students in their higher education proposals? Will he ensure that, in discussions with the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, the needs of those students and others in the...

Student Finance (23 Jun 2003)

Mr Gordon Marsden: ...know what I am going to advocate. I was not aware that the Conservatives were proposing to introduce a hypothecated tax on learning. I thought that they were proposing to scrap a whole series of fees, which would have a catastrophic effect on the funding of the system and the students. Let me turn to the Liberal Democrats' motion, and to the speech by the hon. Member for Harrogate and...

Student Finance (23 Jun 2003)

Mr Gordon Marsden: ...have always entertained grave concerns that we would have the same problems in extracting money via a graduate tax as we had in extracting contributions from the self-employed under the Child Support Agency. That point needs to be taken on board. I do not want to be entirely unkind about the Liberal Democrats and their proposals, because they have some good thoughts and good points. When...

Higher Education (22 Jan 2003)

Mr Gordon Marsden: My right hon. Friend is to be commended on seeing off the wilder ambitions of some of the Russell group universities to inflate top-up fees and restrict research study and awards. He emphasised that the core of his argument is about access for first-generation students, so does he accept that many will regard £1,000 as a barely adequate starter grant? Will he give an undertaking to the...