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Westminster News from Paul Waugh
The Waugh Room
News, gossip and insight from PoliticsHome Editor Paul Waugh
Monday 28th March 2011 | 13:36
Son-of-EMA
The replacement for the EMA is to give a guaranteed £1,200 to 12,000 of the very poorest students in sixth forms and further education, I'm told.
It's a very specific figure - and one that is deliberately £30 more a year than the £1,170 annual maximum available under EMA (which was £30 a week paid out for academic 39 weeks a year).
This will give the Lib Dems some much-needed cover in the wake of the tuition fees row, but it's clear that Michael Gove had a key role in pushing it too.
The Indy's Andy Grice had the global (£180m) figure for the replacement scheme on Saturday, a piece which pointed out that Nick Clegg had been central to squeezing an extra £70m out of the Treasury to fund it.
Government sources are busy rebutting Labour claims that Gove will have to raid his budget to pay for the son-of-EMA. I'm told they already had a pot of cash and that was boosted by the HMT cash.
As for the scheme itself, it will be upto schools and colleges to decide the criteria of how it will be spent (on food or travel) and who - other than the very poorest who are on income support - gets it.
What's curious perhaps is how little credit Simon Hughes has got in the spin war to date. Some in Whitehall whisper that Hughes' appointment as higher education 'access' adviser actually slowed down the hunt for a detailed, coherent replacement system.
"But he's made a valuable contribution and we are in a Coalition after all," as one insider puts it.
November 2010
Hadi
What about the ALG? There is no news on this program which was also run by Capita?