§ Mr. Amessasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science whether he will now give consideration to ending the compulsory funding of student unions and their sabbatical officers from local authority funds.
§ Mr. BrookeA student union exists by virtue of a provision in the constitution of the institution itself, primarily to represent and foster the interests of the student body so as to further the educational purposes of the institution. The institution decides what funds it will allocate from its total resources to the union, taking such account of the union's own administrative structure as it thinks fit.