Further and Higher Education (Access) Bill

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 12:03 pm on 4 March 2011.

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Photo of Philip Davies Philip Davies Conservative, Shipley 12:03, 4 March 2011

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. As he knows, I share his robust opinion on the merits of being in the European Union—that is, that there are no merits of being in the European Union. One problem with allowing more and more people to go to university and increasing tuition fees is that the people who go there on merit end up paying over the odds to subsidise those who do not go there on merit and who will not end up paying back their loan. That is, in effect, the system that the Government have introduced. I think that that puts a penalty on merit. I do not see why people who go to university on merit should subsidise those who are not going on merit.