§ Mr. Hunterasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will introduce regulations to ensure that no local education authority shall implement a decision to terminate an award, or withhold payment due under an award, made in pursuance of the power accorded by regulation 16 of the Education (Mandatory Awards) Regulations 1983 before the authority has given the student concerned the opportunity to submit orally or in writing at the option of the student reasons why the decision should not be implemented.
§ Mr. BrookeNo. It is in the nature of the provisions of regulation 16 that a student will always have an opportunity to say why he thinks his award should not be reduced or terminated.
§ Mr. Hunterasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will introduce regulations to ensure that a student adversely affected by a decision of a local education authority to terminate an award or withhold payment under an award made in pursuance of the power accorded by regulation 16 of the Education (Mandatory Awards) Regulations 1983 shall have a simple and inexpensive means of making an appeal against that decision.
§ Mr. BrookeNo. It is already open to a student to ask the local education authority concerned to review its 489W decision, to ask the Commissioner for Local Administration to intervene if he thinks there has been maladministration and to ask my right hon. Friend to intervene if he thinks the authority has acted unreasonably.