division_name: Further and Higher Education (Access) Bill
motion: <p class="" pid="b.558.2/1" pwmotiontext="yes">I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time.</p>
  
  <p class="" pid="b.558.2/2" pwmotiontext="yes">This is a Bill to make provision to require all institutions of further and higher education in receipt of public funds to allocate places on merit, something that I understand my right hon. Friend the Minister with responsibility for universities and higher education very much supports. I hope, therefore, that the Government will support the Bill today; and if they do not I hope that the Minister for Further Education, Skills and Lifelong Learning, who I am pleased to see on the Front Bench, will spell out in detail exactly why not.</p>
  
  <p pid="b.602.1/1" pwmotiontext="yes"><i>Question put,</i> That the Bill be now read a Second time.</p>
  
  <p class="italic" pid="b.602.1/2" pwmotiontext="yes">The House divided:</p>
  
  <p pid="b.602.1/3" pwmotiontext="yes">Ayes 3, Noes 33.</p>