Shadow business secretary Andrew Griffith has called for urgent action after reports revealed students may be fraudulently claiming hundreds of millions in loans. He described the allegations as "astonishing" and demanded the government "get a grip" on the situation. Report by Covellm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00This is absolutely unbelievable and astonishing.
00:04If the student loan company, if the people who administer the system
00:08and indeed universities have been aiding and abetting
00:11false applications, people who perhaps had no right to be here in the country in the first place,
00:18then this is an absolute scandal.
00:20So the government must get a grip, they must get to the bottom of this.
00:23This is hard-earned taxpayers' money.
00:26Many young people from Britain who would like to go to university or higher education
00:30don't always have the opportunity to,
00:32and if they're seeing their places in the queue being leapfrogged
00:36by people who had no right to do that in the first place,
00:38that is extremely concerning.