I propose to take Questions Nos. 15 and 30 together.
The underlying purpose of the students' summer jobs scheme is to provide income support for the less well-off third level students who are disqualified from receiving unemployment assistance and are unable to obtain summer work. Taking account of the upward trend in the number of students participating in the scheme since its inception, this year priority is being given to enabling the maximum number of eligible students, who have no other means of support, to take part within the allocation for the 1996 scheme which is £10.2 million. The main focus of the scheme this year is to provide places for students who are disqualified from claiming unemployment assistance. Students who still have a legal right to claim unemployment assistance during the summer period—such as mature students and those who have completed their courses—are not deprived of income support and, therefore, are not eligible for the scheme.