HC Deb 06 July 1993 vol 228 c94W
Mr. Byers

To ask the Secretary of State for Education what saving there would have been in the latest year for which information is available if all students in receipt of a mandatory award had been paid at the level for living at the parental home.

Mr. Boswell

In 1991–92, the latest year for which provisional data are available, the effect of restricting all mandatory award holders to the existing maintenance grant rate for living at the parental home would—taken in isolation—have resulted in savings of some £270 million in England and Wales.