Hansard

Education Maintenance Allowance

Volume 455: debated on Wednesday 24 January 2007

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Andrew Rosindell

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how much was paid in the education maintenance allowance scheme in each year since the programme’s inception. (117466)

Phil Hope

Expenditure on education maintenance allowance since its inception in 1999 is shown in the following table.

Cost (£ million)

1999-2000

11

2000-01

52

2001-02

109

2002-03

120

2003-04

142

2004-05

260

2005-06

406.6