University of London Bill [Lords]
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647 cc590-601 Session
2017-19Legislative stage
Second readingChamber / Committee
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Thursday, 3 May 2018
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I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time.
I am very pleased to introduce the ...
I graduated from University College London in 1991, when of course that institution was part of t...
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I very much agree with the hon. Gentleman; that is absolutely at the heart of the Bill.
In my role as the Prime Minister’s trade envoy to Nigeria, we are trying to sell educational esta...
I believe that nothing is more important than to make the hon. Gentleman’s life easier, so I am p...
Is it right to say that the view of the university is that the
...Absolutely. The cause of the difficulty is the combination of the length of the consultation and ...
Last year, the Government passed the Higher Education and Research Act 2017 with the aim of openi...
Does that mean that Birkbeck College, for instance, will become “Birkbeck University, University ...
That will depend on how Birkbeck chooses to refer to itself, but I anticipate that once this Bill...
I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Westminster North (Ms Buck), who I gather is, according to ...
I am hoping that the hon. Gentleman can have a short break to get his cough under control. I shou...
That is a good point. I do not have the answer to the hon. Gentleman’s question, but the Minister...
I am with the hon. Gentleman on that. When evidence was given to the other place, every time ther...
I thank the hon. Gentleman for his intervention. I do not want to prolong the debate unduly on th...
I will be brief. I merely wish to thank the hon. Member for Westminster North (Ms Buck) for her o...
This debate would not have taken place had I not blocked this Bill going through on the nod on Se...
Better than you then.
Far better than me. King’s College London is 26th, Royal Holloway is 28th, Queen Mary is 38th, th...
I thank my hon. Friend for pursuing this line of argument, but suggest that he is making several ...
I am grateful to the Minister for responding to my point with that long intervention. I shall not...
I remind the House that we are not talking about institutions that just arrived yesterday. All th...
Obviously I always take such things into account, but my hon. Friend has not actually told me wha...
I am trying not to be drawn into that particular issue because it is not germane to this debate, ...
It may not be the subject of the debate, but it would be very much a pertinent subject for each c...