HC Deb 22 February 1993 vol 219 cc444-5W
Mr. Dafis

To ask the Secretary of State for Education how many applications for each access fund have been made in each year since the establishment of the funds.

Mr. Boswell

The information is not available in the form requested. Many institutions make no distinction between the three funds when considering applications. Others have considered applications from students on a termly or ad hoc basis, and therefore make more than one payment to individual students.

From the available information it is estimated that the numbers of applications for the three funds which the Department has provided are as follows:

Number
1990–91 116,000
1991–92 118,200

Mr. Dafis

To ask the Secretary of State for Education what monitoring is conducted by his Department of the administration of student access funds.

Mr. Boswell

All institutions are required to account fully for their use of the access funds. Each is required to provide audited accounts, monitoring information and main uses reports for each year of operation of the funds.

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