Is the Minister aware that the surveys being carried out by the Sunderland education authority show that the main reason for students not stopping on to the sixth form in Sunderland is cash? Sunderland has one of the highest unemployment levels in Great Britain, and many of these students have to leave school — bright, able children who should be going to university—to to take part in YTS schemes. Is it not a national disgrace that educational opportunity is indirectly related to poverty and to unemployment, and should not the educational maintenance allowance be at least doubled or trebled, so that children can stay on at school?