§ Mr. Sproatasked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will review the Education Authority Bursaries (Scotland) Regulations; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. Gordon CampbellI have now considered the report of the working party which I set up in December, 1971, and I shall shortly be laying amending Regulations before Parliament which will implement its recommendations. The main effects will be to increase the rates and scales of bursaries granted by education authorities. In addition the authorities will be given discretion to relate the amount of bursaries to individual needs for students under age 18 who have to live away from home in order to attend full-time courses of further education.