§ Mr. Gwynfor Evansasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer how he proposes to compensate the parents of full-time students over the age of 19 years for the ultimate substitution of income tax allowance by increased child benefit, bearing in mind that child benefit is not payable to dependent children of this age.
§ Mr. Robert SheldonThe scale of parental contributions towards student grants has been adjusted to compensate for the value of child tax allowances withdrawn from these parents as the child benefit scheme is phased in. My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Education and Science announced on 19th April the rates of contribution for 1978–79, which take account of the reduction in child tax allowances this year.