§ Paul FarrellyTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if he will publish side-by-side comparative analyses of the cashflow profiles, showing projected expenditure and receipts of(a) the graduate payback scheme proposed in the White Paper on Higher Education and (b) the principal variants of a graduate tax which his Department has considered.[139342]
§ Alan JohnsonI refer my hon. Friend to the two letters to my hon. Friend from my right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, dated 11 April 2003 and 3 June 2003. Copies of both letters are in the House Library. I also refer my hon. Friend to the Government response to the Education and Skills Select Committee's report on the Higher Education White paper, published on 28 July, and to a letter to my hon. Friend from my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, dated 12 November 2003.
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§ Paul FarrellyTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if he will place in the Library copies of focus group research which his Department has carried out into(a) higher education funding and (b) possible graduate contribution schemes. [139364]
§ Alan JohnsonCopies of "Student funding: findings from a two-stage programme of qualitative research on the funding of higher education" were placed in the Library and posted on the Department's Internet site on 28 March 2003.