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  Education (Student Support) (Amendment) Regulations 2015 - Prayer to Anul - Replacing Student Grants with Larger Loans
  
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  @ MP voted aye against scrapping grants for most new higher education students in England from September 2016 and replacing them by raising the amount available via a student loan.
  @ MP voted no to scrap grants for most new higher education students in England from September 2016 and increase the amount available via a student loan.
  
  The majority of MPs voted to scrap maintenance grants and special support grants for most new higher education students starting to attend full time courses in England from 1 September 2016 and to increase the amount available via a student loan instead.[1] 
  
  The motion opposed by both the majority of MPs taking part in the vote, and the majority of MPs for English constituencies was:
  
  :That an humble Address be presented to Her Majesty, praying that the [http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/1951/contents/made?regulation-4-a-i-bb Education (Student Support) (Amendment) Regulations 2015] (S.I., 2015, No. 1951), dated 29 November 2015, a copy of which was laid before this House on 2 December 2015, be annulled.
  
  
  Prior to the vote the deputy speaker stated[2]:
  
  "...as Mr Speaker has certified, this instrument relates exclusively to England and is within devolved legislative competence, it is subject to double majority. If a Division is called, all Members of the House are able to vote in the Division. Under [http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm/cmstords.htm Standing Order] No. 83Q, the prayer to annul the SI will be agreed only if, of those voting, both a majority of all Members and a majority of Members representing constituencies in England vote in support of the motion."
  
  This was the first time a division had been held on a question relating 
  exclusively to England or England and Wales on a matter devolved to other parts of the UK since the standing orders requiring a double majority (of both the whole house and MPs from the region(s) concerned)  for a question to be agreed in such circumstances had been introduced. 
  
  The explanatory notes[1] state the "extent" of the legislation is "England and Wales" but that it only "applies" to England.
  
  The overall result of the division was:
  
  Ayes 292, Noes 303.
  
  The votes cast by Members for constituencies in England were:
  
  Ayes 203, Noes 291.
  
  * [1] [http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/1951/memorandum/contents Explanatory memorandum to the Education (Student Support) (Amendment) Regulations 2015]
  * [2] [http://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2016-01-19c.1294.0#g1343.0 Eleanor Laing MP (Epping Forest, Conservative), Deputy Speaker, Official Record, House of Commons, 19 January 2016] 
  
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