Education Maintenance Allowance

EDM number 811 in 2010-12, proposed by John Robertson on 12/10/2010.
Categorised under the topic of Further education.

That this House supports the extension of education maintenance allowance to over half a million young people who have signed up to receive the allowance since it was rolled out nationally in 2004; calls on the Government never to waiver in its commitment to 16 to 19 year olds who wish to stay on in higher education; opposes any attempts to deny the poorest young people in society the financial assistance to stay on in education; and further calls on the Government to guarantee the future of the education maintenance allowance.

This motion has been signed by a total of 92 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.