HC Deb 16 November 2001 vol 374 c928W
Chris Grayling

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, pursuant to her answer of 2 November 2001,Official Report, column 898W, on costs of living, what estimates the research gave of total required living expenses in (a) London and (b) other parts of England and Wales. [14677]

Margaret Hodge

The Student Income and Expenditure Survey 1998–99 did not give estimates of the total required living expenses. It recorded reported expenditure by students of students.