asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what assumptions were made regarding increases in salaries and wages and the effects of inflation on non-pay items of expenditure in the determination of the 1977–78 recurrent grant for universities, announced on 28th March 1977.

The assumptions used in the 1977–78 recurrent grant settlement conformed to those which underlay the calculation of cash limits generally for 1977–78, announced in Cmnd. 6767. The assumptions on salary increases were consistent with the second stage of pay policy which continues until 31st July 1977. Thereafter an increase at an annual rate of 5 per cent. was assumed. The assumption on non-pay increases was consistent with an expected trend of general price rises of about 13 per cent. at an annual rate by the fourth quarter of 1977, with some decrease thereafter.

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if she will publish for each university in receipt of grants from the University Grants Committee the amount of recurrent grant and of furniture and equipment grant for 1977–78.

1977–78 RECURRENT GRANT AND FURNITURE AND EQUIPMENT GRANT ALLOCATIONS
University or College						Recurrent grant	Furniture and equipment grant
						£m.	£m.
Aston	…	…	…	…	…	7·641	0·836
Bath	…	…	…	…	…	4·961	0·321
Birmingham	…	…	…	…	…	16·920	0·860
Bradford	…	…	…	…	…	8·083	0·453
Bristol	…	…	…	…	…	12·556	0·718
Brunel	…	…	…	…	…	5·100	0·332
Cambridge	…	…	…	…	…	17·160	0·973
City	…	…	…	…	…	5·620	0·399
Durham	…	…	…	…	…	5·889	0·318
East Anglia	…	…	…	…	…	5·458	0·404
Essex	…	…	…	…	…	3·817	0·263
Exeter	…	…	…	…	…	5·462	0·254
Hull	…	…	…	…	…	6·238	0·293
Keele	…	…	…	…	…	4·080	0·160
Kent	…	…	…	…	…	4·130	0·309
Lancaster	…	…	…	…	…	5·314	0·385
Leeds	…	…	…	…	…	17·639	1·776
Leicester	…	…	…	…	…	6·564	1·062
Liverpool	…	…	…	…	…	15·593	1·177
London Graduate School of Business Studies			…	…	…	0·474	0·007
London University	…	…	…	…	…	112·591	7·556
Loughborough	…	…	…	…	…	7·167	0·497
Manchester Business School	…	…	…	…	…	0·462	0·005
Manchester	…	…	…	…	…	20·792	0·934
University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology						8·795	0·675
Newcastle	…	…	…	…	…	12·718	1·051
Nottingham	…	…	…	…	…	10·552	0·901
Oxford	…	…	…	…	…	17·670	1·368
Reading	…	…	…	…	…	8·280	0·470
Salford	…	…	…	…	…	8·229	0·655
Sheffield	…	…	…	…	…	13·074	1·060
Southampton	…	…	…	…	…	9·994	0·707
Surrey	…	…	…	…	…	6·313	0·402
Sussex	…	…	…	…	…	6·568	0·337
Warwick	…	…	…	…	…	5·354	0·303
York	…	…	…	…	…	3·931	0·402
University of Wales	…	…	…	…	…	30·488	1·724
Aberdeen	…	…	…	…	…	10·909	0·580
Dundee	…	…	…	…	…	7·004	0·536
Edinburgh	…	…	…	…	…	18·537	0·773
Glasgow	…	…	…	…	…	17·855	1·104
HeriotWatt	…	…	…	…	…	4·389	0·310
St. Andrews	…	…	…	…	…	4·932	0·280
Stirling	…	…	…	…	…	3·630	0·205
Strathclyde	…	…	…	…	…	9·541	0·715
Reserve for local authority rates		…	…	…	…	32·000	0·250*
General Reserve	…	…	…	…	…	2·526
Total Great Britain	…	…	…	…	…	553·000	35·100
* Reserve.

The total recurrent grant excludes provision for the recent increase in National Insurance contributions from which universities, as charities, have been exempted.