HC Deb 27 June 1995 vol 262 c631W
26. Mr. Pickthall

To ask the Secretary of State for Education what plans she has to redistribute the student top-up tuition fees for Oxbridge colleges to all British universities. [29133]

Mr. Boswell

There are no plans to redistribute Oxbridge college fees in this way. A college fee is paid in recognition of the tuition and other facilities that the colleges provide to their students. The Higher Education Funding Council for England takes account of the Oxbridge colleges' fee income in determining the level of grant payable to the universities of Oxford and Cambridge and abates those universities' grants accordingly.

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