Abolition Of Tuition Fees And Top-Up Fees (EDM286)

Abolition Of Tuition Fees And Top-Up Fees

EDM number 286 in 2004-05, proposed by Phil Willis on 02/12/2004.

That this House rejects the imposition of fees and top-up fees on students in higher education; notes that the Government's own research shows that the poorest students are those most affected by debt and therefore the most likely to be deterred from entering higher education; further notes that the average student debt levels have been increasing year on year and are predicted to significantly increase after the introduction of top-up fees; rejects alternative proposals to fund higher education through the introduction of commercial interest rates on student debts which would place a heavy burden on less affluent students who enter the public and voluntary sectors for their employment; further notes that all tuition fees have been abolished in Scotland for Scottish students and that bursaries for the least affluent students have been successfully introduced through a graduate levy; and calls on the Government to abolish all tuition fees for higher education and invest the equivalent income from a higher rate of tax on incomes over Ãº100,000.

This motion has been signed by a total of 33 MPs.

MP	Date	Constituency	Party	Type
Phil Willis	02/12/2004	Harrogate & Knaresborough	Liberal Democrat	Proposed
David Rendel	02/12/2004	Newbury	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Bob Russell	06/12/2004	Colchester	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Adrian Sanders	06/12/2004	Torbay	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Martin Smyth	06/12/2004	Belfast South	UUP	Signed
Paul Holmes	06/12/2004	Chesterfield	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Annette Brooke	06/12/2004	Mid Dorset & North Poole	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Terry Lewis	07/12/2004	Worsley	Labour	Signed
Richard Younger-Ross	07/12/2004	Teignbridge	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Mike Hancock	07/12/2004	Portsmouth South	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Andrew George	07/12/2004	St Ives	Liberal Democrat	Signed
David Chidgey	07/12/2004	Eastleigh	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Michael Moore	07/12/2004	Tweeddale, Ettrick & Lauderdale	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Austin Mitchell	07/12/2004	Great Grimsby	Labour	Signed
John Pugh	07/12/2004	Southport	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Adam Price	07/12/2004	Carmarthen East & Dinefwr	Plaid Cymru	Signed
Lynne Jones	08/12/2004	Birmingham, Selly Oak	Labour	Signed
Robert Wareing	08/12/2004	Liverpool, West Derby	Labour	Signed
Ann Cryer	08/12/2004	Keighley	Labour	Signed
Sue Doughty	09/12/2004	Guildford	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Alan Simpson	13/12/2004	Nottingham South	Labour	Signed
Nick Harvey	13/12/2004	North Devon	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Vincent Cable	13/12/2004	Twickenham	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Brian Cotter	13/12/2004	Weston-Super-Mare	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Andrew Stunell	13/12/2004	Hazel Grove	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Eric Illsley	16/12/2004	Barnsley Central	Labour	Signed
David Crausby	16/12/2004	Bolton North East	Labour	Signed
John Barrett	10/01/2005	Edinburgh West	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Paul Marsden	17/01/2005	Shrewsbury & Atcham	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Sandra Gidley	17/01/2005	Romsey	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Robert Smith	27/01/2005	West Aberdeenshire & Kincardine	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Parmjit Gill	02/02/2005	Leicester South	Liberal Democrat	Signed
George Galloway	23/03/2005	Glasgow, Kelvin	Independent	Signed

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