Written question asked by Jim Cousins (Labour) on Wednesday, 21 July 2004, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Tuesday, 7 September 2004. It was answered by Alan Johnson (Labour) on Tuesday, 7 September 2004 on behalf of the Department for Education and Skills.

Dept for Education and Skills

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, if he will place in the Library the survey referred to in his Answer of 10th May, Official report, columns 53-4W, on student grants. - Inc ref to 10 May 2004, 421 c53-4W.

Answer: Mr. Cousins: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if he will place in the Library the survey referred to in his answer of 10 May 2004, Official Report, columns 53-54W, on student grants. [186849] Alan Johnson: The specially commissioned survey referred to in the answer of 10 May 2004, Official Report, columns 53-54W, was collected from local education authorities in England and Wales and completion of it was on a voluntary basis. The response rate means that the survey results cannot be used safely at the level of individual LEAs, although we can use it nationally when also combined with income data from other sources. That is how we constructed the estimate of the proportion of students anticipated to receive the full grant of £2,700. However because of the data quality issues it is not possible to publish the raw survey data itself.

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