§ Mr. Malcolm BruceTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what estimate he has made of the annual cost, for each of the next 20 years, of replacing the university maintenance loan with a maintenance grant for Scottish students at United Kingdom universities; if he will set out the figures in terms of(a) their cash accounting and funding impact and (b) their effect in terms of resource accounting; and if he will make a statement. [74711]
§ Mrs. Liddell[holding answer 5 March 1999]: The information is set out in the table. Figures have been provided by statisticians from the Department for Education on a U.K. wide basis and the Scottish share has been calculated as approximately 11% of the total. Information is not available for each of the next twenty years. However a selection of years was modelled for illustrative purposes.
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£ million Year Cash accounting Resource accounting 1998–99 16.5 38.5 1999–2000 44 115.5 2000–01 71.5 176 2005–06 159.5 231 2010–11 264 253 2015–16 308 236.5