Just over 17,100 students were receiving student maintenance grants as at 31 December 2017 for the 2017-2018 academic year. This amounted to €25,468,292 for the 2017 calendar year.

The above information was tabled in Parliament by Education Minsiter Evarist Bartolo, who was responding to a Parliamentary Question posed by PL MP Stefan Zrinzo Azzopardi. Azzopardi asked for information regarding the number of students who benefitted from stipends and other grants from 2011 to this scholastic year, and the total financial amount per year.

For the 2017 - 2018 scholastic year, the response notes that applications are currently being processed and vetted, and that the number of students receiving the Students' Maintenance Grants is bound to increase as more students confirm their application.

Generally speaking, the number of students receiving the Students' Maintenance Grants rose slowly up until the 2016 - 2017 year, from 16,927 in the 2011 - 2012 academic year, to 18,846 in the 2016 - 2017 year. In the 2011 calendar year, the total amount spent was €21 933,162.