B

Baroness Watkins of Tavistock (CB)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 10 March 2026

Debate

Student Loan System

Contribution

My Lords, it is absolutely clear that there is no intergenerational fairness in the way that student loans are being funded at the moment. There are many of us in this House, and many of our spouses, who went to university for absolutely nothing. We are now faced with young graduates who are completely capable of estimating that the big amounts that will need to be repaid for people who have not repaid their loans will be in 30 years, when they will be 60. It will not be the majority of us here who contribute to that. At what point will we consider some form of taxation, so that we all encourage proper support for people at university?

More from Baroness Watkins of Tavistock (CB)

Other recent Hansard contributions by the same speaker.

About Hansard

Hansard is the official verbatim record of proceedings in the UK Parliament. Every word spoken in the Commons and Lords is recorded and published — this page is a single contribution from that record.

Partner sites