§ Mr. RoweTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science for which areas of local authority service provision for which he is responsible payments are required to be made to individuals who are not employees(a) in the form of a grant or one-off payment and (b) on receipt of paid invoices.
§ Mr. Eggar[holding answer 6 June 1991]: Local education authorities may make payments to a variety of individuals who are not their employees. Examples may include mandatory and discretionary awards to students; assistance to school children and students for clothing, footwear, school journeys or towards tuition fees; allowances to councillors or governors; and payments to suppliers of goods and services. Information on the full range of such payments, or on whether they take the form of grants or of reimbursement of paid invoices, is not collected centrally.