HC Deb 16 February 1948 vol 447 cc168-9W
Mr. Lever

asked the Minister of Education whether, in view of the need to attract married women into whole or part-time work, he will cease the practice of deducting married women's earnings from their husband's war education grants.

Mr. Tomlinson

In order to encourage students' wives to undertake work wherever practicable, my Department in assessing a student's grants takes no account of the first £80 of his wife's earnings and takes into account only half of any earnings in excess of that figure.

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