We can announce they the Labour party have listened to our calls for a vote to take place on the scrapping of the education maintenance allowance (EMA). And are using a their parliamentary backbench business day next week to pass a motion in the house to make a vote essential.

James Mills, Campaign Director of Save EMA said:

“We are grateful to Andy Burnham and the Labour party for listening to our calls on this making sure that young people’s voices are heard on this matter in Parliament and the same attention given to tuition fees is shown also to the vital issue of EMA”.

“David Cameron told the Save EMA campaign at a Cameron Direct event in Hammersmith this time last January that he supported EMAs but now the Prime Minister has gone back on his word after the election and axed EMAs. The 19^th January will be the time when we will know which MPs want to support his lie and those who want to stand up for the poorest teenagers in our country and Save EMA”.

More to come soon…