§ Mr. Ralph Howellasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will show, for each year since implementation, the total cost of free school meals, school uniform grants and any other benefits administered by his Department, distinguishing between cost of benefits and administrative costs and showing numbers employed to work the scheme; the number of claims made; the number of payments made; the estimated percentage take-up in relation to eligibility; and the length of time for which payments continue before reassessment.
§ Miss Joan LestorThis information could not be supplied without disproportionate cost.