§ Sir David Priceasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will list in the Official Report details of what each member country of the European Community is giving to its university students in the current academic year by way of maintenance grant and miscellaneous financial assistance.
§ Mr. WaldegraveInformation for the current academic year is not available. However, the UNESCO statistical yearbook for 1980 shows that the total expenditure on scholarships and all other forms of financial aid—excluding loans—granted to higher education students in 1977 in France was £137 million, in Ireland was £2.7 million and in the Netherlands was £62 million—at 1977 sterling exchange rates. The equivalent figure for Italy in 1976 was £105 million. Expenditure in the United Kingdom in the financial year 1977–78 on student maintenance grants and tuition fees was £563 million. No information is given for other EEC countries.