Results 1-7 of 7 for ("top up" fees) speaker:Matthew Taylor

School Transport (3 Feb 2004)

Mr Matthew Taylor: Last week the House witnessed a fierce debate about student top-up fees. But while it is still the case that a minority of people go to university, everyone goes to school; and while tuition fees are a serious issue, school transport fees are an issue that is even more relevant to millions of pupils and parents across the country. As the Minister will know, there have been striking...

Tuition Fees (Cornwall) (7 Jan 2004)

Mr Matthew Taylor: ...the Government's proposals, and I welcome the Minister. It may be worth touching on the background to the Government's position. On 23 July 1997, announcing the introduction of university tuition fees, the then Secretary of State for Education and Employment, the right hon. Member for Sheffield, Brightside (Mr. Blunkett), said that "the entire objective in taking our difficult decisions...

Student Finances (Cornwall) (13 May 2003)

Mr Matthew Taylor: I very much welcome this opportunity to raise a subject that has, to say the least, been of some controversy on both sides of the House: tuition fees and the Government's plans for top-up fees. I shall say a little more on both in a moment, but I want to focus on the impact that tuition fees have already had on Cornish students and, more specifically, on the impact on Cornish students of...

Student Finances (Cornwall) (13 May 2003)

Mr Matthew Taylor: ...time we get to higher education, when people start to contemplate the debt that they are taking on, Cornwall falls behind the national average. The key is that, until the introduction of tuition fees, the proportion of Cornwall's young people who went into higher education was gradually increasing. However, at the point at which the fees were introduced, the number fell back and since then...

Student Finances (Cornwall) (13 May 2003)

Mr Matthew Taylor: I do not want to dwell on Conservative policy because I welcome the fact that they oppose tuition fees. They have not done that consistently before and it may help us to defeat the top-up proposals. Some 140 Labour MPs have signed an early-day motion opposing top-up fees. If they have the courage of their convictions and vote with the Conservative party and the Liberal Democrats, the...

Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation (14 Apr 2003)

Mr Matthew Taylor: ...they had to hit councils, but both Conservative and Labour Governments have performed the trick since the council tax was introduced. Council tax replaced the poll tax. As we all remember, VAT went up in order to increase the grant and keep council tax down to a level that would not lead to public protest but, ever since, year by year, Governments have been unburdening themselves of the...

Economy and Trade and Industry (18 Nov 2002)

Mr Matthew Taylor: As it appears that each member of the Cabinet is to have a free vote on university top-up fees, will the right hon. Gentleman tell the House whether he believes that top-up fees are an acceptable way forward for higher education?