§ Mr. Leverasked the Minister of Education whether, in view of the need to attract married women into whole or part-time work, he will cease the practice of deducting married women's earnings from their husband's war education grants.
§ Mr. TomlinsonIn order to encourage students' wives to undertake work wherever practicable, my Department in assessing a student's grants takes no 169W account of the first £80 of his wife's earnings and takes into account only half of any earnings in excess of that figure.