§ Mr. HindTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will announce the rates of supplementary allowances payable within the mandatory student award in 1990–91.
§ Mr. MacGregorSubject to Parliament's approval of the necessary regulations, supplementary allowances payable within the mandatory student award by local education authorities in England and Wales will be increased in the academic year 1990–91. I announced substantial improvements in the disabled students' allowance on 19 March at columns417-18.Other allowances will be raised broadly in line with the main grant increases which I announced on 19 December 1989 at columns 220-222. I am placing details in the Library.