Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Education and Employment – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 17 February 2000.
Malcolm Wicks
Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Department for Education and Employment
12:00,
17 February 2000
The proposals in Scotland do not involve the abolition of tuition fees—[Interruption.] I shall tell it to whoever wants to listen.
We are putting in place the £68 million package to help mature students, particularly those with children and child care costs. We are very sensitive to the family dimension—so much so that we have recognised, for example, an anomaly whereby school meals for children of mature students were not covered. We are putting that right. We are very sensitive to the issue. We want to enable more mature students to enter the system.