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Graduate Tax

EDM number 692 in 2009-10, proposed by Ashok Kumar on 25/01/2010.
Categorised under the topics of Students and Taxation.

That this House concurs with the National Union of Students that a graduate tax should be introduced for financing universities in place of top-up fees and that raising the £3,000 cap on fees will create further marketisation of higher education, pricing the poorest out of the system; and believes that a graduate tax would also provide a more reliable and consistent form of finance for universities and have the benefit of fostering a longer-term bond between alumni and the university.

This motion has been signed by a total of 31 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Ashok Kumar25/01/2010Middlesbrough South and East ClevelandLabourWithdrawn
Diane Abbott25/01/2010Hackney North and Stoke NewingtonLabourProposed
Sandra Gidley25/01/2010RomseyLiberal DemocratSeconded
Mark Durkan25/01/2010FoyleSocial Democratic and Labour PartySeconded
Marsha Singh25/01/2010Bradford WestLabourSeconded
Albert Owen25/01/2010Ynys MLabourSeconded
Mike Gapes25/01/2010Ilford SouthLabourSeconded
David Drew25/01/2010StroudLabourSigned
Eric Illsley25/01/2010Barnsley CentralLabourSigned
Lindsay Hoyle25/01/2010ChorleyLabourSigned
Alan Simpson26/01/2010Nottingham SouthLabourSigned
Martin Caton26/01/2010GowerLabourSigned
Ann Cryer26/01/2010KeighleyLabourSigned
Desmond Turner27/01/2010Brighton, KemptownLabourSigned
Andrew Pelling27/01/2010Croydon CentralIndependentSigned
Brian Jenkins28/01/2010TamworthLabourSigned
Betty Williams28/01/2010ConwyLabourSigned
Rudi Vis28/01/2010Finchley and Golders GreenLabourSigned
Harry Cohen29/01/2010Leyton and WansteadLabourSigned
Neil Gerrard29/01/2010WalthamstowLabourSigned
Eddie McGrady01/02/2010South DownSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
Mike Hancock01/02/2010Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSigned
Colin Burgon02/02/2010ElmetLabourSigned
Michael Connarty02/02/2010Linlithgow and East FalkirkLabourSigned
David Crausby02/02/2010Bolton North EastLabourSigned
Bill Etherington02/02/2010Sunderland NorthLabourSigned
Geraldine Smith03/02/2010Morecambe and LunesdaleLabourSigned
Jim Dobbin03/02/2010Heywood and MiddletonLabourSigned
Richard Younger-Ross03/02/2010TeignbridgeLiberal DemocratSigned
Ken Purchase04/02/2010Wolverhampton North EastLabourSigned
Paul Truswell05/02/2010PudseyLabourSigned

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