division_name: Rating (Property in Common Occupation) and Council Tax (Empty Dwellings) Bill (Ways and Means) &#8212; Higher Education
motion: <p class="indent" pid="b681.0/2" pwmotiontext="yes">That an Humble Address be presented to Her Majesty, praying that the Higher Education and Research Act 2017 (Consequential, Transitional, Transitory and Saving Provisions) Regulations 2018 (S.I., 2018, No. 245), dated <phrase class="date" code="2018-02-26">26 February</phrase> 2018, a copy of which was laid before this House on <phrase class="date" code="2018-02-28">28 February</phrase>, be annulled.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b681.0/6" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;The same due diligence was carried out by the same advisers on all the candidates.&#8221;&#8212;[Official Report, <phrase class="date" code="2018-02-27">27 February</phrase> 2018; Vol. 636, c. 698.]</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b681.0/9" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;dialogue with the OfS Chair&#8230;to ensure that both student interests and the further education sector&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b682.0/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;annulment of the statutory instrument is&#8230;not in the interest of either universities or students&#8221;?</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b685.1/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;give consideration to the lack of people with direct experience of FE and apprenticeship backgrounds on the board&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b685.1/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;I recognise and agree with the clear message that was delivered on the importance of representation from the further education sector in our operations.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b685.1/7" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;welcome high-quality applications from people with experience of the further education sector when the DfE launch their recruitment campaign for the current &#8216;ordinary member&#8217; board vacancy.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b686.4/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;there is a need to solicit and respond to distinct research priorities and evidence requirements identified by the devolved administrations&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b686.4/7" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;it is essential that the Research Councils should play a strong role in&#8230;shaping research priorities and promoting the distinctive requirements of UK research, including in association with the devolved administrations.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b686.4/11" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;had serious shortcomings in terms of the fairness and transparency&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b690.4/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;It is a huge problem if we feel we cannot criticise government. A lot of VCs feel that if they speak out they risk being ripped apart by the media. If there is a lack of leadership at UUK that is a massive problem.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b692.0/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;We shall vote against it this evening. We shall campaign against it and ensure that parents throughout Britain see the Bill as deeply damaging, because it is an ideologically driven privatising measure.&#8221;&#8212;[Official Report, <phrase class="date" code="2018-11-19">19 November</phrase> 1991; Vol. 199, c. 232.]</p>
  
  <p class="italic" pid="b699.3/6" pwmotiontext="yes">The House divided:</p>
  
  <p pid="b699.3/7" pwmotiontext="yes">Ayes 211, Noes 291.</p>