Higher Education Bill — Second Reading — Increase in University Tuition Fees — 27 Jan 2004 at 18:38
The majority of MPs voted in favour of university tuition fees increasing from £1125 per year to up to £3000 per year, and to make other changes to higher education funding and regulation arrangements.
The majority of MPs voted to allow the Higher Education Bill 2004 to move to its Second reading, and continue its path to becoming law.
The main provisions of the bill were:
- To allow University tuition fees to increase from the fixed £1125 per year to up to £3000 per year.
- To create the Office for Fair Access to regulation higher education institution's charging of fees.
- To create the Office of the Adjudicator in Higher Education - a complaints body - higher education institutions became legally bound to deal with.
- To create the Arts and Humanities Research Council.
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Party Summary
Votes by party, red entries are votes against the majority for that party.
What is Tell? '+1 tell' means that in addition one member of that party was a teller for that division lobby.
What are Boths? An MP can vote both aye and no in the same division. The boths page explains this.
What is Turnout? This is measured against the total membership of the party at the time of the vote.
| Party | Majority (Aye) | Minority (No) | Both | Turnout |
| Con | 1 | 158 (+2 tell) | 0 | 98.8% |
| DUP | 0 | 6 | 0 | 100.0% |
| Independent | 0 | 2 | 0 | 100.0% |
| Independent Conservative | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100.0% |
| Lab | 314 (+2 tell) | 72 | 1 | 95.3% |
| LDem | 0 | 54 | 0 | 100.0% |
| PC | 0 | 4 | 0 | 100.0% |
| SDLP | 0 | 3 | 0 | 100.0% |
| SNP | 0 | 5 | 0 | 100.0% |
| UUP | 0 | 5 | 0 | 100.0% |
| Total: | 315 | 310 | 1 | 96.8% |
Rebel Voters - sorted by constituency
MPs for which their vote in this division differed from the majority vote of their party. You can see all votes in this division, or every eligible MP who could have voted in this division
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