division_name: Work and Pensions &#8212; United Kingdom Research and Innovation
motion: <p class="indent" pid="b710.4/5" pwmotiontext="yes">That the Committee consents to the following certified clause of the Higher Education and Research Bill:</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b710.4/6" pwmotiontext="yes">Clauses and schedules certified under Standing Order 83L(2) as relating exclusively to England and Wales and being within devolved competence</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b710.4/7" pwmotiontext="yes">Clause 81 of the Bill (Bill 78)&#8212;(Joseph Johnson.)</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b710.4/11" pwmotiontext="yes">That the Committee consents to the following certified clauses and schedules of the Higher Education and Research Bill and certified amendments made by the House to the Bill:</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b710.4/12" pwmotiontext="yes">Clauses and schedules certified under <phrase class="standing-order" code="83L(2)">Standing Order No. 83L(2)</phrase> as relating exclusively to England and being within devolved legislative competence</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b710.4/13" pwmotiontext="yes">Clause 56 of and Schedule 5 to the Bill (Bill 78);</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b710.4/14" pwmotiontext="yes">Amendments certified under <phrase class="standing-order" code="83L(4)">Standing Order No. 83L(4)</phrase> as relating exclusively to England</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b710.4/15" pwmotiontext="yes">Amendments 109, 243, 244 and 245 made in the Public Bill Committee to clause 80 of the Bill as introduced (Bill 4), which is Clause 81 of the Bill as amended in the Public Bill Committee (Bill 78)&#8212;(Joseph Johnson.)</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b711.0/8" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;UK Research and Innovation&#8230;will boost cooperation among the research councils; allow a more flexible, interdisciplinary approach to global challenges; and position research at the heart of a new industrial strategy&#8221;,</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b713.0/7" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Instead of looking at urgently needed and constructive ways of reducing the financial fees burden on our students, the Government have produced mechanisms which dodge Parliament&#8217;s ability to judge and regulate them.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b713.0/9" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Instead of strengthening and shoring up our universities and higher and further education at a most critical time, they risk seriously undermining them by obsessively pursuing a market ideology. Instead of presenting analysis in the wake of Brexit, offering relief, assurances and strategies to safeguard both research excellence in our traditional and modern universities and the involvement of higher education in the local communities and economies that they serve, the Government have presented no answers to the urgent threats&#8221;.&#8212;[Official Report, <phrase class="date" code="2016-07-19">19 July</phrase> 2016; Vol. 613, c. 728.]</p>
  
  <p class="italic" pid="b715.2/4" pwmotiontext="yes">The House divided:</p>
  
  <p pid="b715.2/5" pwmotiontext="yes">Ayes 279, Noes 214.</p>