§ Mr. David Watkinsasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what is the Exchequer cost, excluding variable costs such as travel allowances, of maintaining a 16 or 17-year-old person in non-residential sixth form education, assuming that he or she is living in a family of four with a household income of £6,000.
§ Dr. BoysonRate support grant is not earmarked for particular services and the information is not available in the form requested. As a broad indication of the cost to public funds, a recoupment rate of £1,623 has been approved by the inter-authority payments committee for pupils over 16 in England and Wales in the present financial year.