§ Mr. Bryan DaviesTo ask the Secretary of State for Education when he expects the results of the monitoring requirement contained in the Higher Education Funding Council for England circular "Access Funds: Terms and Conditions for Payment" and notes of guidance for the academic year 1993–94 to be published.
§ Mr. BoswellThere are no plans to publish the results of the monitoring returns from higher education institutions on their use of discretionary access funds in 1993–94. In issuing revised guidance on access funds annually, my Department takes into account the report it receives each year from the funding council on the results of its monitoring exercise.
§ Mr. Bryan DaviesTo ask the Secretary of State for Education why the publication of the Higher Education Funding Council for England circular "Access Funds: Terms and Conditions for Payment" and notes of guidance for the academic year 1993–94 was delayed until April.
§ Mr. BoswellIn sending guidance on access funds to the Higher Education Funding Council for England in November 1993, we advised that an amendment was likely to be required following the European Economic Area agreement. The funding council decided to delay issue of its circular until details of the amendment were received, at the end of January 1994, so as to incorporate them. The council then issued its circular as soon as the high priority 73W work on the 1994–95 funding allocations allowed. It is its intention that allocations and conditions circulars for 1994–95 will be issued at the beginning of the new academic year.