HC Deb 06 May 1963 vol 677 c19W
Mr. Hayman

asked the Minister of Education which local education authorities are providing maintenance allowances for schoolchildren over the age of 15 years at a level below that recommended by the Weaver Working Party.

Sir E. Boyle

An inquiry in 1961 showed that the following 50 authorities were then paying maintenance allowance at rates below those recommended by the Working Party.

Counties County Boroughs
Cheshire*. Barrow-in-Furness*.
Cornwall. Blackpool.
Herefordshire*. Bournemouth.
Huntingdonshire. Bristol.
Isle of Ely. Chester.
Leicestershire. Coventry.
Lincs. Holland. Great Yarmouth.
Lincs. Lindsey. Ipswich*.
Shropshire *. Lincoln.
Staffordshire*. Norwich.
Suffolk East. Preston.
Suffolk West. Reading.
Warwickshire. Rotherham*.
Westmorland. St. Helens*.
Wiltshire*. Sheffield.
Yorkshire East Southport.
Riding. Stockport.
Stoke-on-Trent.
Anglesey. Sunderland.
Brecon. Wakefield.
Caernarvonshire. Walsall.
Cardiganshire.
Carmarthenshire. Merthyr Tydfil.
Denbighshire. Swansea.
Glamorgan*.
Monmouthshire.
Montgomeryshire*.
Pembrokeshire.
Radnorshire*.
* Authorities which were at the time considering revision of their arrangements.