Letter from Bill Rammell MP, Minister of State for Lifelong Learning, Further and Higher Education
Thank you for your email of 29 January, enclosing a copy of the NUS Briefing, 'The future sustainability of the higher education sector'. You also copied your email and the Briefing to David Amess MP, who in turn wrote on your behalf to Alan Johnson. I have recently replied to that correspondence on the secretary of State's behalf in my capacity as Minister for Lifelong Learning, Further and Higher Education.
I do appreciate that the NUS is concerned about any increase in the £3000 cap on tuition fees and its impact on thoses planning to attend university in the future. As you will be aware Charles Clarke, when Secretary of State for Education and Skills, announced in in January 2004 during the passage of the Higher Education (HE) Act that an Independent Commission would look at all aspects of the new fee arrangements based on the first three years' operation of the policy and report to parliament.
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