Georgia Gould

I do not have much time, so I am not going to take interventions. I want to be able to answer the points that have been put to me. Too many children have been left without provisi…

I am grateful for the huge interest across the Chamber in this critically important issue. Tonight, we heard from so many different Members of Parliament the voices of children an…

I have made it very clear that we want to increase the quality of courses, and that is one of the conditions that we attached to increasing the fees in a fair way, but we want to…

I think it important to make it clear—some people watching the debate will be worried about this—that these are not normal loans, in that young people who are not earning, or are…

We want young people to have a choice: to go to university, to study, to take up an apprenticeship or to earn and learn. We want that range of routes to be available and for young…

We saw a 40% reduction in young people’s apprenticeships over a decade. That was the legacy of the Conservative party. While the foundational principles of our higher education fu…

Of course I recognise the critical role that FE colleges play in supporting children into the creative industries. That is why this Government are backing FE colleges after the pr…

I thank my hon. Friend for that powerful point. Her creative arts degree was of huge benefit in getting her to this place.

I thank my hon. Friend for making that point. As she knows, increasing security for women on maternity leave is a really important part of this Government’s agenda, and that is wh…

Did the right hon. Member tell me who should not go to university? I can tell the Conservatives that when they close the drawbridge, it is pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds wh…

We are absolutely committed to driving up the quality of all university courses, and we are acting on that. Conservative Members have attacked arts and creative courses as the are…

I would be delighted to take the right hon. Member’s incredibly short intervention.