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I have belaboured these points because they mean that private rented accommodation that is affordable for students and in ready supply is incredibly important to the future of this country and of our young people. It is absolutely central to enabling their movement and to their future prospects. There is no way that universities can provide cheap accommodation for all or the majority of their students throughout their degrees. As the noble Lord, Lord Willetts, has already pointed out, the growth and availability of privately rented student accommodation in university towns and cities has been central to the growth of higher education in this country. This is due partly to the rise of international students, of course, but, above all, to the huge increase in home student enrolments in the past decades.