asked the Secretary of State for Employment:(1) how many full-time students applied for unemployment benefit during the summer of 1975; and what were the comparable figures for the previous year;(2) what was the total cost of paying unemployment benefit to full-time students in the summer of 1975; and what were the comparable figures for 1974.

Our records of claims and payments of unemployment benefit do not distinguish between claims made by students and those made by other unemployed persons.The number of unemployed students registered for employment was 91,963 at 14th July 1975, 93,464 at 11th August 1975 and 97,399 at 8th September 1975. The comparable figures for the same three months of 1974 were 24,358, 27,634 and 29,301 respectively.