UNIVERSITY TUITION FEES

Early day motion 124A1, tabled 27 November 2003 by Lord Willis of Knaresborough (Liberal Democrat). Signed by 18 members.

Line 8, delete from 'believes' to end, and insert 'regrets continued suggestions that the Scottish system of graduate endowment payments involves any element of tuition fees; re-emphasises that the money raised by this system is all redistributed into maintainance grants to students from poorer backgrounds and is not used to pay tuition costs; notes that the 2001 Act of the Scottish Parliament makes it illegal to use this money for tuition costs; and congratulates the Scottish Executive for their commitment to fund tuition costs solely out of general taxation; and calls on the UK Government to join their Labour Party colleagues in Scotland in ruling out top-up fees.'

Signatures by party: Liberal Democrat 18.