MoD private education bill tops £170 million
THE Ministry of Defence spent more than £170 million helping service personnel pay for private education of their children last year.
Junior defence minister Kevan Jones said the MoD provided 172,844,735 of funding on the Continuity of Education Allowance (CEA) in 2008-9, up from 162,189,373 in 2007-8.
The CEA is paid to members of the armed forces to fund the education of their children in independent schools.
In a Commons written reply to Liberal Democrat defence spokesman Willie Rennie, Mr Jones said: "The purpose of the CEA is to allow children of armed forces personnel to achieve a stable education against a background of frequent parental postings both at home and overseas."
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