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Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA)

The issue of EMA has been debated today in the House of Commons. No-one is saying that the system should not change.

The difficulty is working out what proportion of EMA is spent on unnecessary things. It is clear that many students rely on it for transport, but not all of them.

What I have been doing is working with the 6th form Colleges in Birmingham to try to find out what is essential.

Only when we have that information can we judge how much money should be in the replacement scheme.

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