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Opposition Day — [12th Allotted Day]: Knife Crime (9 Jun 2009) has video

Chris Grayling: ...causes. Before I begin my remarks on the motion, I welcome the new Home Secretary and his new team to their positions. It is five years since I last did battle with the right hon. Gentleman over top-up fees, and it is a pleasure to shadow him again. I wondered whether he might prove to be the shortest-lived Home Secretary in the history of this country, but following last night's meeting...

Skills White Paper (22 Mar 2005)

Mr Chris Grayling: ...be greeted with a degree of surprise by the college sector. Is she aware that colleges are having to divert funding away from level 3 to basic skills, and that her own Government have introduced top-up fees for level 3 students? Is she aware that the Learning and Skills Council has said that such money will be clawed back? Will she match the Conservative party's commitment to adult...

Written Answers — Education and Skills: Top-up Fees (8 Feb 2005)

Mr Chris Grayling: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what her policy is on the charging of top-up fees to students who leave school in 2005 and take a gap year, but change the course that they will be taking during that gap year.

Debate on the Address: [First Day] (23 Nov 2004)

Mr Chris Grayling: ...licensees clearly have a role to play in reducing antisocial behaviour. None the less, where there is trouble, illegality and disorder, the police are too often unable to do anything about it. A couple of years ago, there was a large illegal rave involving 2,000 or 3,000 people just outside my constituency. As the event started to build, 12 officers were available in the local station in...

Orders of the Day — Higher Education Bill: Clause 23 — Duty of Secretary of State to Impose Condition as to Student Fees, etc (23 Jun 2004)

Mr Chris Grayling: My hon. Friend makes an important and powerful point. It is replicated by another important profession—vets. As the Minister said, vets do not get any support from the Government. The proposals have caused great anxiety in the veterinary profession. He will be aware that the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons expressed great concern about the White Paper. It said that it would "deter...

Orders of the Day — Higher Education Bill: Clause 23 — Duty of Secretary of State to Impose Condition as to Student Fees, etc (23 Jun 2004)

Mr Chris Grayling: ...country needs people. It is extremely revealing. The Government have admitted this afternoon that this amendment could cost £180 million. We know that the total extra amount that will be raised from top-up fees is £900 million. What the Government are saying is that £1 in every £5—20 per cent. of the extra cost of these measures—is being levied from those...

Orders of the Day — Higher Education Bill: Clause 23 — Duty of Secretary of State to Impose Condition as to Student Fees, etc (23 Jun 2004)

Mr Chris Grayling: ...which the Minister rightly paid tribute to his colleague, Baroness Ashton, for the work that she did, I congratulate Lord Forsyth, who did a tremendous job on this Bill. Many sixth formers should feel great gratitude to him, because his work has contributed to the concessions that the Government are making this afternoon. Those concessions are enormously welcome for those sixth formers and...

Oral Answers to Questions — Education and Skills: Gap Year (27 May 2004)

Mr Chris Grayling: ...the Minister has not talked to sixth-formers recently. If he does a straw poll of them, he will find that many of those leaving in 2005 are saying that they will not take a gap year to avoid top-up fees. Does the Minister accept that that will cause chaos in the universities admissions system in 2005 and represents a genuine injustice to many young people who for financial reasons will not...

Higher Education Bill: New Clause 5 — Abolition of tuition fees chargeable to qualifying student (31 Mar 2004)

Mr Chris Grayling: Does the hon. Gentleman accept that, under the current system, a student from a less well-off background will end up with student loan debts of about £10,000? After the introduction of top-up fees, even taking grants into account, that same student will end up with debts of about £10,000. So, at the end of their university career, their financial position will be no different.

Oral Answers to Questions — Education and Skills: Higher Education (18 Mar 2004)

Mr Chris Grayling: ...funding per student will still be substantially lower than it was under the last Conservative Government. Yesterday, the Chancellor made comments about student grant funding, but they apply only up to 2008, before top-up fees fully come into effect. Will the Minister therefore give a clear and unequivocal commitment that he will maintain Government grant per student after 2008 as well as...

Written Answers — Education and Skills: Student Loans (15 Mar 2004)

Mr Chris Grayling: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills (1) what proportion of student loans he estimates will not be paid off after 25 years following the introduction of top-up fees; (2) what estimate of (a) the proportion of the overall student loan book, (b) the total value of loans and (c) the total number of individual loans that would remain outstanding after 25 years he used in...

Public Bill Committee: Higher Education Bill: Clause 41 - Transfer of certain functions to National Assembly for Wales (9 Mar 2004)

Mr Chris Grayling: ...fund? What does he expect to be the situation for Welsh students attending English universities and English students attending Welsh universities in respect of the provision of grants and the fees charged, which the Government say those grants are designed to offset? What rules do the Government expect to apply? What financial support will be provided by the Department here to English...

Public Bill Committee: Higher Education Bill: Clause 41 - Transfer of certain functions to National Assembly for Wales (9 Mar 2004)

Mr Chris Grayling: ...morning. He rightly reminded the Committee about the important debate on Welsh issues that took place when we discussed clause 21. However, it is a shame that when I sought to raise the issue of fees in relation to Wales, the Chairman at that time, Mr. Hood, said: ''We are not discussing the levels of fees at present; we are discussing the plans. I ask the hon. Gentleman to stay in...

Public Bill Committee: Higher Education Bill: Clause 30 - General duties of relevant authority (4 Mar 2004)

Mr Chris Grayling: I am afraid that I do not accept that. Let me give the Minister a practical example of what he could have done. I promise that I shall not digress far, Mr. Gale. We debated financing and top-up fees. The Government will spend more on the new student support systems than will be raised from fees. If they had taken a small amount of the extra money that will be used to subsidise the student...

Public Bill Committee: Higher Education Bill: Clause 30 - General duties of relevant authority (4 Mar 2004)

Mr Chris Grayling: ...went into the job market by choice, and some went off and did other things. In an interesting and enlightening comment, he also said that some were put off by the cost of going to university. How top-up fees will affect that proportion I have no idea—well, I do have some idea. The reality is that, to all intents and purposes, virtually all people who get two A-levels already go to...

Public Bill Committee: Higher Education Bill: Clause 30 - General duties of relevant authority (4 Mar 2004)

Mr Chris Grayling: We now reach the second crucial element of the Bill. Having spent last week debating the fundamental issue of top-up fees, we come now to a subject that is perhaps less welcome to universities—the access regulator. Let me start by saying how surprised Opposition Members were when the Government imposed a guillotine after clause 29—the first of this group of clauses, which relates...

Public Bill Committee: Higher Education Bill: Clause 23 - Condition that may be required to be imposed by English funding bodies (2 Mar 2004)

Mr Chris Grayling: ...persuaded that there were disadvantages if special arrangements were not made for students who wished to take a year out. They agreed that, in the year before the introduction of the current basic fees, students who sought to defer their entry to university by one year to take a year out would be treated as though they had entered university at the usual time and would be exempt from...

Public Bill Committee: Higher Education Bill: Clause 23 - Condition that may be required to be imposed by English funding bodies (2 Mar 2004)

Mr Chris Grayling: .... Under the current proposals, if they choose to take a gap year by deferring their entry to university until 2006, they will be among the first cohort of university students who are liable to pay top-up fees. They will have a disincentive to take a gap year at that time. There will be a financial imperative for them to take the decision to go to university straight away. I hope that...

Public Bill Committee: Higher Education Bill: Clause 23 - Condition that may be required to be imposed by English funding bodies (2 Mar 2004)

Mr Chris Grayling: It is clear that, regardless of whether it is paid in arrears or in advance, many students will regard a fee of £3,000 as a greater deterrent than one of £1,000. Those students will have to choose whether to go to university in 2006 and, in doing so, to take on a much higher level of debt with, in many cases, an extension of the repayment term for many years and a dramatic increase...

Public Bill Committee: Higher Education Bill: Clause 23 - Condition that may be required to be imposed by English funding bodies (2 Mar 2004)

Mr Chris Grayling: Absolutely. My hon. Friend is right, and of course three years from now is well beyond the introduction of top-up fees and well beyond the practical reality of some of the shortcomings that cause so much concern to those who are active in part-time higher education and in the institutions that deliver so much quality education to so many people. I shall touch on some of those issues this...