Can we have some guarantee about this—that this money will not be handed over before we are consulted, in view of the long vacation?
We will be monitoring in the autumn the proportion held back to assist students in this summer term and long vacation.
There is no long vacation; it is a 40-week term.
No such appeals are likely to be adjourned because of the long vacation.
This question of the long vacation is sometimes introduced as if it was entirely an anachronism.
As for the long vacation, that is an old question.
For example, there is the concession of deferring the removal of housing benefit for unoccupied accommodation in the long vacation.
They are not, of course, idle through the whole of the long vacation.
