§ Mr. Andrew SmithTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what external legal advice his Department has received on the contractual status between the Council for National Academic Awards and students currently registered with that body who will not complete their courses or programmes of research until after September 1992.
§ Mr. Alan HowarthIt is not the usual practice of the Department to disclose whether it has received legal advice. My right hon. and learned Friend accepts that it will be essential for alternative arrangements to be made for students presently registered with the Council for National Academic Awards, but who will not complete their courses until after September 1992. As indicated in46W his answer on 16 December, Official Report, columns 31-33, he is satisfied that the necessary arrangements are capable of being made within the planned timetable.