HC Deb 18 December 1980 vol 996 c300W
Mr. Andrew F. Bennett

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services whether he will urgently bring forward amending regulations so that school students who resit their examinations are not penalised by loss of entitlement to supplementary benefit until a Monday at the end of the following summer vacation.

Mrs. Chalker

No. I gave the hon. Member for Colne Valley (Mr. Wainwright) full reasons for this during the Adjournment debate on 11 December.—[Vol. 996, c. 1862–68.]