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- Written Answers — Education and Skills: Tuition Fees (Art Degrees) (6 Dec 2004)
Professor Steve Webb: ...Secretary of State for Education and Skills whether prospective students who are required to undertake a one-year foundation course prior to commencing an art degree in 2006 will be liable to pay top-up tuition fees for their art degree; and if he will make a statement.
- Pension Provisions (Younger Women) (28 Oct 2003)
Professor Steve Webb: ...;but we do not think it is good enough to count as a year's worth of work. A year spent stacking shelves in Tesco, for example, would lead to a year's pension entitlement, but a year spent bringing up a young child would not. Those are not the values that we should espouse, so I think that a carers credit is a good proposal. The hon. and learned Lady pointed out the problem of the lower...
- Top-up Fees (16 Jul 2003)
Professor Steve Webb: Does the hon. Gentleman share the view that the distinction between the £1,100 top-up fee, which is fully rebated for the poor, and the £1,900, which is not rebated at all, is a concern for his constituents? Would he like to see that £1,900 rebated for the poor?
- Top-up Fees (16 Jul 2003)
Professor Steve Webb: ...Learning, Further and Higher Education has been in post for less than a month but, so far as I am aware, this is at least the third occasion on which he has been called on to respond to a debate on top-up fees. He should certainly be on top of his brief by now. Hon. Members may wonder what the point is of another run-through on top-up fees, because we had two major debates on them in the...
- Top-up Fees (16 Jul 2003)
Professor Steve Webb: ...He makes the point that if one uses funding that is not a named debt against a named person, the impact is bound to be different. Very little of the debate has focused on the differential impact of top-up fees on women. I will pursue that point by considering some other responses on top-up fees in my constituency survey, all of which are from female respondents. One woman, who is subject...
- Top-up Fees (16 Jul 2003)
Professor Steve Webb: In a fair system, the better-off should pay a larger proportion of the total cost of a university education. With fees of £3,000, £1,900 is not rebated even for low-income households. I hope that the Minister will update us on the Secretary of State's thinking on that because he seemed to intimate in evidence to the Select Committee that he was considering whether the whole...
- Top-up Fees (16 Jul 2003)
Professor Steve Webb: ...they would not be seen as an elite product. I do not know how far that analogy works, but there is danger that if a university signals that it does not think that the market will bear the full fee, it is signalling that its course is not popular or that the people who take it will not tell their friends to do so. Prices have a signalling effect, which is a concern. The flip-side of the...