Scottish Government

Statistics on Education Maintenance Allowances (EMAs) in the academic year 2010-11. This release contains information on all students at school or at a college in Scotland who received at least one payment under the EMA scheme. This is the fourth year of full roll out of EMAs.

34,780 school pupils and college students received EMA payments in Scotland in the academic year 2010-11. This is a decreased of 7% (2,450) from 37,230 in 2009-10 to 34,780 in 2010-11. This decrease was mainly due to the closure of the £10 and £20 a week payments to new entrants in 2009-10.

The total spend on EMAs in 2010-11 was £27.2 million.