Adjournment debate on Tuesday, 28 January 2014, in the House of Commons, led by Kate Green. The answering member was Matt Hancock.

Education Funding for 18-year-olds

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Type: Parliamentary proceeding
Reference: 574 cc191-215WH
Session: 2013-14
Department: Department for Education
Chamber / Committee: Westminster Hall
Proceeding contributions: Kate Green | 574 c191WH (Link to this contribution)
It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship this morning, Mr Williams. I am very glad to ha...; Jim Cunningham | 574 c191WH (Link to this contribution)
I hope that my hon. Friend realises that the student opportunity fund will also be cut. That will...; Kate Green | 574 c191WH (Link to this contribution)
My hon. Friend is right to draw attention to the wider context of the cuts faced, both by the FE ...; Caroline Lucas | 574 c191WH (Link to this contribution)
I congratulate the hon. Lady on securing the debate. While we are focusing on the impacts on sixt...; Kate Green | 574 c192WH (Link to this contribution)
The hon. Lady is right. The issue of the uneven playing field in relation to VAT charging was rai...; Julian Huppert | 574 c192WH (Link to this contribution)
I thank the hon. Lady for giving way and for securing this very important debate. Does she agree ...; Kate Green | 574 c192WH (Link to this contribution)
I very much support what the hon. Gentleman says. This is a matter of the incentives and funding ...; Lord Blunkett | 574 c192WH (Link to this contribution)
I congratulate my hon. Friend on securing the debate, and apologise for the fact that I will not ...; Kate Green | 574 c193WH (Link to this contribution)
I very much agree, both with the concerns that my right hon. Friend raises about the impact asses...; Stephen Gilbert | 574 c193WH (Link to this contribution)
I congratulate the hon. Lady on securing this important debate. Her experience in Trafford is exa...; Kate Green | 574 c193WH (Link to this contribution)
I very much agree with the hon. Gentleman that the impact assessment, which paints a rather puzzl...; Stephen Timms | 574 cc193-4WH (Link to this contribution)
I am grateful to my hon. Friend for securing a debate on this very important issue. She has talke...; Kate Green | 574 cc194-5WH (Link to this contribution)
It is indeed a damaging and arbitrary cut. Little attention seems to have been paid to the educat...; 574 c195WH (Link to this contribution)
rose—; Hywel Williams | 574 c195WH (Link to this contribution)
Order. At least 10 hon. Members have written in to say that they want to contribute to the debate...; John Pugh | 574 cc195-7WH (Link to this contribution)
I congratulate the hon. Member for Stretford and Urmston (Kate Green) on calling the debate. I wa...; John Denham | 574 c197WH (Link to this contribution)
I congratulate the hon. Member for Stretford and Urmston (Kate Green) on obtaining this important...; Kerry McCarthy | 574 c197WH (Link to this contribution)
I have had an e-mail from the principal of the sixth-form college in my constituency, who says th...; John Denham | 574 c198WH (Link to this contribution)
The attendance at this debate suggests that many hon. and right hon. Members across the House sim...; Caroline Nokes | 574 cc198-9WH (Link to this contribution)
It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Williams. I add my congratulations to the h...; Richard Burden | 574 cc199-201WH (Link to this contribution)
I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Stretford and Urmston (Kate Green) on securing this ...; Peter Aldous | 574 c201WH (Link to this contribution)
It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Williams. I congratulate the hon. Member fo...; Jason McCartney | 574 c201WH (Link to this contribution)
I declare a personal interest. I never went to university; I attended a vocational college course...; Peter Aldous | 574 c202WH (Link to this contribution)
I am grateful to my hon. Friend for raising that matter. I will indeed join him in asking the Min...; Marcus Jones | 574 c202WH (Link to this contribution)
I will try to be brief. My hon. Friend is quite correct that there will be a significant funding ...; Peter Aldous | 574 c202WH (Link to this contribution)
My hon. Friend raises an interesting point. It is one of a number of issues that I do not believe...; Meg Hillier | 574 cc202-4WH (Link to this contribution)
It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Williams. I congratulate my hon. Friend the...; Julian Huppert | 574 c204WH (Link to this contribution)
It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship in this excellent debate, Mr Williams. I warmly...; Bill Wiggin | 574 c204WH (Link to this contribution)
Hereford sixth-form college is another outstanding performer. Does the hon. Gentleman agree that ...; Julian Huppert | 574 c205WH (Link to this contribution)
The hon. Gentleman is right. I was going to say that next. I have debated this matter in the Hous...; Caroline Lucas | 574 c205WH (Link to this contribution)
Does the hon. Gentleman agree that it adds insult to injury that because the Office for National ...; Julian Huppert | 574 c205WH (Link to this contribution)
I agree. It is perverse to say that a free school or academy is more public than a sixth-form col...; Eric Ollerenshaw | 574 c205WH (Link to this contribution)
On that point, will my hon. Friend give way?; Julian Huppert | 574 c206WH (Link to this contribution)
No, I am afraid I will not. I have given way twice already.
The speed of the proposal is a ...; Nicholas Dakin | 574 c206WH (Link to this contribution)
It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Williams. I congratulate my hon. Friend the...; Marcus Jones | 574 c206WH (Link to this contribution)
Will the hon. Gentleman give way?; Nicholas Dakin | 574 cc206-7WH (Link to this contribution)
No. I have to allow other hon. Members to get in.
Political choices are being made, which i...; Peter Bottomley | 574 cc207-8WH (Link to this contribution)
On behalf of my hon. Friend the Member for East Worthing and Shoreham (Tim Loughton), I shall put...; Hywel Williams | 574 c208WH (Link to this contribution)
I intend that the winding-up speeches should begin at 10.40. If hon. Members who want to speak wi...; Steve Reed | 574 cc208-210WH (Link to this contribution)
The proposal to cut further education funding for 18-year-olds disproportionately will have a maj...; Simon Danczuk | 574 c210WH (Link to this contribution)
I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Stretford and Urmston (Kate Green) for obtaining an importa...; Rushanara Ali | 574 cc210-1WH (Link to this contribution)
It is a pleasure, Mr Williams, to serve under your chairmanship. I congratulate my hon. Friend th...; Julian Lewis | 574 c211WH (Link to this contribution)
The principal of Brockenhurst college in my constituency has made similar points about people who...; Rushanara Ali | 574 c212WH (Link to this contribution)
The issue has been discussed; my hon. Friend the Member for Stretford and Urmston mentioned it, a...; Matt Hancock | 574 cc212-3WH (Link to this contribution)
It is a great pleasure, Mr Williams, to respond, under your chairmanship, to a forthright debate....; Nicholas Dakin | 574 c213WH (Link to this contribution)
First, earlier information about a cut would have been helpful and welcomed by colleges. Secondly...; Matt Hancock | 574 c213WH (Link to this contribution)
I will certainly respond to that point. The irony for those already in education who are affected...; Rehman Chishti | 574 c213WH (Link to this contribution)
I accept that the Government have done a lot of good work in the FE sector. The Minister says tha...; Matt Hancock | 574 cc213-4WH (Link to this contribution)
I will absolutely ensure that that happens. In fact, I will ensure that such discussions take pla...; Julian Lewis | 574 c214WH (Link to this contribution)
I had an exchange with the hon. Member for Bethnal Green and Bow (Rushanara Ali) earlier. Given t...; Matt Hancock | 574 cc214-5WH (Link to this contribution)
I am well versed in the VAT issue and recognise the argument. Removing the VAT anomaly would cost...; Eric Ollerenshaw | 574 c215WH (Link to this contribution)
The Minister is explaining himself extremely well, but there is a bit I do not get. Why did he ma...; Matt Hancock | 574 c215WH (Link to this contribution)
My life would certainly have been easier had the decisions been taken together, and had that not ...
Subjects: Finance Further education VAT Vocational education Students Sixth form education
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Education Funding for 18-year-olds

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