HC Deb 22 June 1992 vol 210 cc37-8W
Mr. Don Foster

To ask the Secretary of State for Education in the most recent year for which figures are available, what was the public expenditure on the support of fees for full-time first degree students through(a) mandatory awards and (b) discretionary awards.

Mr. Forman

Expenditure by local education authorities in England and Wales on the support of fees for full-time first degree students through

  1. (a) mandatory awards was £259.3 million in 1989–90, the most recent year for which figures are available.
  2. (b) discretionary awards is not available centrally.

Mr. Don Foster

To ask the Secretary of State for Education in the most recent year for which figures are available, what was the public expenditure on the support of fees for part-time first degree students through(a) the part-time fees support grant paid by the Universities Funding Council and the Polytechnics and Colleges Funding Council and (b) through local education authority discretionary awards.

Mr. Forman

Public expenditure on the support of fees for part-time first degree students through

(a) the part-time fees support grant paid by the UFC in Great Britain for 1991–92 and 1992–93 is as follows:

1991–92 (provisional) £ million 1992–93 (provisional) £ million
6.9 7.4

Source: Universities Funding Council.

Note: Data are not available centrally on the PCFC.

(b) Data on discretionary awards paid to part-time first degree students are not available centrally.