Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many young people aged between 16 and 19 have received the maximum bursary available under the 16 to 19 bursary scheme in each year since 2011.

The 16-19 Bursary fund is separated into discretionary and vulnerable bursaries. Schools and colleges received allocations of discretionary bursary funding and make awards to individual students whom they have assessed against their own criteria. As a result it is not possible to provide numbers that have received the bursary in 2011/12 and 2012/13. It is now retained centrally (this 2013/14 academic year) and institutions claim funds for any students who are eligible.

A full year's data for 2013/14 will be available from January 2015.