§ Mr. GreenTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment (1) if he will introduce legislation to allow the pilot schemes for educational maintenance allowances to proceed; [53611]
494W(2) if families of children involved in the pilot schemes for educational maintenance allowances will lose their entitlement to child benefit; [53612]
(3) what will be the cost to public funds of the pilot schemes for the educational maintenance allowance; [53613]
(4) which areas he proposes to use as pilot areas for the educational maintenance allowance; [53614]
(5) when he proposes to start the pilot schemes for the educational maintenance allowance; [53615]
(6) what will be the rate of the educational maintenance allowance. [53616]
§ Mr. MudieI refer the hon. Member to the reply given on 28 July 1998,Official Report, column 141. The pilots are planned to start in September 1999.