HC Deb 03 May 1984 vol 59 c212W
Mr. Freud

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will estimate the cost to public funds of incorporating into each student maintenance grant the rate of travel allowance determined by his or her residential status.

Mr. Brooke

By removing the need for local education authorities to scrutinise individual claims and make individual assessments and payments to very large numbers of students — over 170,000 claimants in 1981–82—we would expect the new arrangements for meeting students' travel costs announced recently to lead to worthwhile savings.