division_name: Public Services, Health and Education
motion: <p class="" pid=".509.4/1" pwmotiontext="yes">I beg to move, as an Amendment to the Address, at the end of the Question to add:&#8212;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid=".509.4/2" pwmotiontext="yes">'But oppose the proposals in the Gracious Speech that massively reduce the independence of universities in their admissions policy; deplore the inclusion of measures likely to burden the average student with &#163;33,000 debt on graduation by 2010; regret the violation of the Government's 2001 manifesto pledge not to introduce top-up fees; call on Ministers to concentrate on raising standards, improving the credibility of qualifications and ensuring access to higher education on the basis of merit, not ability to pay; further regret the absence of measures to reduce the bureaucracy faced by school governors, head-teachers, teachers, doctors, nurses and NHS managers, and to extend patient choice and reduce the use of centrally-set targets, which prevent the NHS responding effectively to the needs of patients; further deplore the lack of progress on the Mental Health Bill in a form which would protect the rights of people with mental health problems and promote their access to treatment; further regret the lack of prior consultation on a draft of the Human Tissue Bill; and further deplore the absence of measures to promote freedom and decentralisation in the NHS.'.</p>
  
  <p pid=".612.2/1" pwmotiontext="yes"><i>Question put,</i> That the amendment be made:&#8212;</p>
  
  <p pid=".612.2/2" pwmotiontext="yes"><i>The House divided:</i> Ayes 189, Noes 340.</p>