§ Mr. Alex CarlileTo ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will call for a report to be conducted on the living standards of undergraduate students in Wales; and if he will make a statement. [616]
§ Mr. HagueNo. The Department for Education and Employment has recently commissioned a survey of student income and expenditure to take place in the current academic year. The survey will be based on a representative sample of full-time home students on higher education courses below postgraduate level at publicly funded institutions in the United Kingdom. The report of the survey's findings will be published in due course.