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Higher Education: Government Support

I commend the hon. Gentleman for securing this debate. I spoke to him beforehand to get the thrust of his comments. Does he agree that universities must cut domestic undergraduate numbers to absorb funding cuts, limiting local access to higher education, which is exacerbating the existing trend of young people leaving university across the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, depriving the economy of skilled graduates? That cannot be allowed to continue if we are to reap the benefits of our first-class education system for future employees and workers.