HC Deb 22 March 1971 vol 814 c57W
Mr. Arthur Lewis

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science whether she will publish in the OFFICIAL REPORT a detailed list giving the rise in prices and costs of all items of goods or services for which she has to give Ministerial approval or sanction, which has taken place between 18th June, 1970, and Thursday, 11th March, 1971.

Mrs. Thatcher

Fees (tuition and boarding) at direct grant schools, non-maintained special schools, voluntary colleges of education and certain further education colleges are subject to my approval or sanction. It would involve a disproportionate effort to list details of all the increases approved.

Higher fees for national certificate and diploma examinations come into operation during the current (1970–71) session. Subscriptions to journals translated from the Russian by the National Lending Library for Science and Technology have in some cases been increased from 1st January.