§ Ian LucasTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if she will take steps to allow tuition fees to be deductible against tax. [12693]
§ Margaret Hodge[holding answer 15 November 2001]: In England, contributions towards tuition fees for home and EU full-time undergraduate students are income assessed. Around 50 per cent. of students are not required to make any contribution at all; 15 per cent. make a partial contribution, and 35 per cent. make the full contribution. The cost of higher education tuition is already heavily subsidised by the Government, both through the means testing system and because fees only meet a quarter of the average cost of a course. In these circumstances a further
Number and proportion of children in maintained secondary schools in Wycombe constituency by ethnic group, January 2001 Ethnic group Proportion of pupils in grammar schools (Percentage) Proportion of pupils in other secondary schools (Percentage) Total number of pupils in maintained secondary schools White 70.6 29.4 5,866 Black Caribbean heritage 18.8 81.3 192 Black African heritage 34.9 65.1 43 Black other 36.2 63.8 58 Indian 82.6 17.4 121 Pakistani 22.6 77.4 939 Bangladeshi 46.7 53.3 15 Chinese and any other minority ethnic group 51.9 48.1 374 Total number of pupils classified by ethnic origin 62.0 38.0 7,608