Education and Skills written question – answered at on 3 February 2003.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills
(1) when 16 to 18-year-olds in Redcar constituency will become entitled to education maintenance allowances;
(2) if he will give priority to areas adjacent to the pilot schemes in the national implementation of Education Maintenance Allowances.
Education Maintenance Allowances (EMAs) will be made available across the whole of England from September 2004. Initially, EMAs will be available to students in their first year of post-compulsory education (year 12), although in the EMA pilot areas, students in year 13 and 14 will also be eligible.
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