§ Mr. Humeasked the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will make a statement outlining the number of discretionary awards allocated by each of the education and library boards and his Department for the current academic year indicating the numbers of higher value and lower value awards, the numbers of minimum and maximum awards, the numbers of living at home and living away from home awards, the numbers of applications for awards, and the total amount allocated by each awarding agency.
§ Mr. Scott[pursuant to his reply, 4 June 1985, c. 140]: At undergraduate level the Department is responsible only for teacher training awards. Education and library boards are responsible for discretionary awards.
The information requested is as follows: 145W
Education and Library Board Belfast North-Eastern Southern South-Eastern Western Totals Total number of Discretionary awards made in 1984–85 academic year (A) 395 455 316 382 388 1,936 Of (A) the number which are full value awards 218 219 188 246 181 1,052 Of (A) the number which are lasser value awards 177 236 128 136 207 884 Of (A) the number which are maximum awards 169 273 224 78 265 1,009 Of (A) the number which are minimum awards 68 50 31 49 22 220 Of (A) the number which are living at home awards 202 145 93 227 119 786 Of (A) the number which are living away from home awards 193 310 223 155 269 1,150 Total Budget for discretionary awards for financial year ended 31 march 1985 £510,000 £714,000 £571,000 £515,000 £632,000 £2,942,000 NB: Statistics on the number of applications are not collated.