§ Mr. Beithasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science whether his revised income scales for the assisted places scheme assume a larger total cost for the scheme or a smaller number of places.
§ Dr. BoysonThe resources available for the early years of the assisted places scheme remain those set out in "The Government's Expenditure Plans 1980–81 to 1983–84," Cmnd. 7841. Any assessment of the number of places that can be offered can only be approximate until the scheme is established, but the revised income scale is not expected signi-198W ficantly to affect the average cost of fee remission per place.