Mr Luke Charters

Mr Luke Charters

Labour — York Outer

Speaking in the House of Commons on 7 January 2026

Debate

Student Finance (Review of Payment Schedules)

Contribution

Well, they want to cut the national minimum wage for young people. What a scandal! The Greens are peddling false hope to students and have no realistic plan to help with the cost of living. Their Members are not even here today. And this entire mess is totally of the Tory-led coalition Government’s making—the one I went to university under, by the way. We must help students with the cost of living so that they can live up to their full potential, rather than having a terrible experience at uni because they are struggling to make ends meet. So let us make a simple fix to the timings of maintenance loans to support millions of students up and down the country. Question put and agreed to. Ordered, That Mr Luke Charters, Adam Jogee, Abtisam Mohamed, Tom Hayes, Pam Cox, Luke Myer, Mike Reader, Sarah Russell, Gareth Snell, Afzal Khan, Sam Carling and Dr Jeevun Sandher present the Bill. Mr Luke Charters accordingly presented the Bill. Bill read the First time; to be read a Second time on Friday 16 January, and to be printed (Bill 357).

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