Business, Innovation and Skills written question – answered at on 3 July 2012.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills how much has been spent on maintenance grants for undergraduate students in each year since 2007-08; and how much is expected to be spent in each year up to 2014-15.
In each academic year since 2007-08, the expenditure on maintenance grants and special support grants has been as follows. This series excludes the expenditure on the HE grant introduced in 2004 and no longer available to entrants from 2006. These data are published each November by the Student Loans Company:
Grants awarded (£ million) | |
2011/12(1) | 1,213.3 |
2010/11 | 1,259.1 |
2009/10 | 1,207.8 |
2008/09 | 998.6 |
2007/08 | 629.6 |
(1) Provisional |
In each year up to 2014-15 the expected expenditure is:
Grant forecasts (£ million) | |
2014/15 | 1,550 |
2013/14 | 1,450 |
2012/13 | 1,350 |
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