STUDENT FEES

Early day motion 1108, tabled 17 March 2009 by Bob Spink (Independent). Signed by 22 members.

That this House notes with concern the view of universities that tuition fees should be sharply increased, with over half saying that the fee should be raised to £5,000 a year; believes this would be damaging to society as well as to individual students and would discriminate against students from less well off backgrounds; and calls on the Government to remove student fees entirely.

Signatures by party: Labour 11, Liberal Democrat 8, Independent 2, Social Democratic and Labour Party 1.