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Service Personnel (Children's Education)

Volume 888: debated on Tuesday 11 March 1975

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asked the Secretary of State for Defence how many children of Service personnel are educated currently at public expense in the private sector of education in the United Kingdom.

Last December boarding school allowance was being paid in respect of 23,208 children of Armed Forces personnel. Nearly all the schools concerned are outside the maintained system.