Parliamentary Questions - Written Replies

ASSISTED PLACES: The estimated cost to the Department for Education of the assisted places scheme (which provides help for children of lower- income families at independent schools) for the 1993-94 year is pounds 97.5m, Eric Forth, the education under-secretary, said.

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MALAYSIAN ARMS: Over pounds 1bn in defence sale contracts were negotiated between 1989 and 1993 under the Memorandum of Understanding signed with Malaysia, Jonathan Aitken, defence procurement minister, told Jim Cousins (Lab, Newcastle-upon-Tyne Central).