HC Deb 04 June 1991 vol 192 c182W
Mr. Anthony Coombs

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science when he will announce the rates of supplementary allowances payable within the mandatory student award in 1991–92.

Mr. Alan Howarth

Subject to Parliament's approval of the necessary regulations which will be laid in due course, supplementary allowances payable within the mandatory student award by local education authorities in England and Wales will be increased in the academic year 1991–92. In most cases, the rises will be broadly in line with the overall increase in student support through the loan and basic grant together which I announced on 22 May,Official Report, columns 499–500. I am placing details of the supplementary allowances in the Library.