asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what allowance has been made in the financial provision of the University Grants Committee in 1979–80 in respect of the 7 per cent. increase in value added tax.
I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave to a similar question from the hon. Member for Rother Valley (Mr. Hardy) on 19 December.
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what allowance has been made in the financial provision of the University Grants Committee for inflation in the current year, and what this represents in percentage terms.
Within the total recurrent grant payable to universities by the University Grants Committee in the financial year 1979–80, a total of £121 million has been provided for price increases and pay settlements. This represents an allowance of 15 per cent.
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what allowance has been made to the University Grants Committee for 1980–81 to offset inflation.
The grant for 1980–81 has not yet been settled.
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science when he last met representatives of the trade unions covering ancillary staff from institutions funded largely by the University Grants Committee.
At the request of my right hon. and learned Friend I met representatives of trade unions covering non-teaching staff in universities on 26 November this year.
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science how many people are employed in institutions funded under the University Grants Committee in 1978–79; what is his projection for 1980–81 and 1981–82; and if he will indicate the numbers in (a) academic and (b) ancillary grades.
In 1978–79 the number of people so employed, whether or not financed from general university funds, was about 110,000. 40,800 of these were
| ACADEMIC YEAR 1978–l79 | ||||||
| University or College | Full-time academic staff | Full-time | Students Part-time | Total | ||
| Aston | … | … | 606 | 5,557 | 388 | 5,945 |
| Bath | … | … | 417 | 3,561 | 257 | 3,818 |
| Birmingham | … | … | 1,400 | 8,919 | 661 | 9,580 |
| Bradford | … | … | 543 | 4,934 | 396 | 5,330 |
| Bristol | … | … | 1,073 | 6,755 | 499 | 7,254 |
| Brunel | … | … | 332 | 2,722 | 801 | 3,523 |
| Cambridge | … | … | 1,177 | 11,299 | 1,023 | 12,322 |
| City | … | … | 352 | 2,834 | 415 | 3,249 |
| Durham | … | … | 513 | 4,301 | 199 | 4,500 |
| East Anglia | … | … | 364 | 3,872 | 132 | 4,004 |
| Essex | … | … | 330 | 2,795 | 159 | 2,954 |
| Exeter | … | … | 563 | 4,949 | 614 | 5,563 |
| Hull | … | … | 541 | 5,192 | 303 | 5,495 |
| Keele | … | … | 337 | 2,690 | 424 | 3,114 |
| Kent | … | … | 467 | 3,809 | 253 | 4,062 |
| Lancaster | … | … | 525 | 4,531 | 310 | 4,841 |
| Leeds | … | … | 1,334 | 10,297 | 840 | 11,137 |
| Leicester | … | … | 576 | 4,208 | 755 | 4,963 |
| Liverpool | … | … | 1,071 | 7,435 | 483 | 7,918 |
| London Graduate School of Business Studies | … | … | 67 | 224 | 10 | 234 |
| London University | … | … | 7,444 | 39,337 | 8,419 | 47,756 |
| Loughborough | … | … | 571 | 5,151 | 470 | 5,621 |
| Manchester Business School | … | … | 40 | 138 | 4 | 142 |
| Manchester | … | … | 1,598 | 10,982 | 918 | 11,900 |
| University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology | … | … | 539 | 3,862 | 141 | 4,003 |
| Newcastle | … | … | 1,092 | 7,619 | 515 | 8,134 |
| Nottingham | … | … | 884 | 6,500 | 638 | 7,138 |
| Oxford | … | … | 1,937 | 12,203 | 1,195 | 13,398 |
| Reading | … | … | 742 | 5,849 | 357 | 6,206 |
| Salford | … | … | 510 | 4,376 | 332 | 4,708 |
| Sheffield | … | … | 995 | 7,576 | 374 | 7,950 |
| Southampton | … | … | 925 | 6,106 | 347 | 6,453 |
| Surrey | … | … | 449 | 3,309 | 359 | 3,668 |
| Sussex | … | … | 672 | 4,321 | 201 | 4,522 |
| Warwick | … | … | 584 | 4,378 | 270 | 4,648 |
| York | … | … | 402 | 3,163 | 186 | 3,349 |
| Total England | … | … | 31,972 | 225,754 | 23,648 | 249,402 |
academic staff and about 70,000 were full-time and part-time ancillary staff. University grants for 1980–81 and 1981–82 have not yet been settled and I am therefore not able to estimate staff numbers in those years. In any case, it is for the institutions themselves to settle their staffing policy in the light of resources available to them.
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will list in the Official Report the institutions under the University Grants Committee, together with the number of academic staff, ancillary staff and students in each.
Details of the numbers of academic staff, whether or not financed from general university funds, and of full-time and part-time students at each of the universities on the UGC's grant list in the academic year 1978–79, are given below:
University or College
| Full-time academic staff
| Full-time
| Students Part-time
| Total
|
| Aberystwyth UC | 425 | 3,173 | 16 | 3,189 |
| Bangor UC | 409 | 2,978 | 145 | 3,123 |
| Cardiff UC | 699 | 5,347 | 448 | 5,795 |
| St. David's, Lampeter | 69 | 665 | 26 | 691 |
| Swansea UC | 499 | 3,846 | 186 | 4,032 |
| Welsh National School of Medicine | 221 | 778 | 28 | 806 |
| University of Wales Institute of Science and Technology | 323 | 2,808 | 64 | 2,872 |
| University of Wales | 2,645 | 19,595 | 913 | 20,508 |
| Total England and Wales | 34,617 | 245,349 | 24,561 | 269,910 |
| Aberdeen | 856 | 5,457 | 149 | 5,606 |
| Dundee | 513 | 2,867 | 199 | 3,066 |
| Edinburgh | 1,500 | 9,869 | 930 | 10,799 |
| Glasgow | 1,466 | 9,404 | 1,251 | 10,655 |
| Heriot-Watt | 335 | 3,066 | 229 | 3,295 |
| St. Andrews | 364 | 3,277 | 129 | 3,406 |
| Stirling | 287 | 2,645 | 162 | 2,807 |
| Strathclyde | 876 | 6,455 | 508 | 6,963 |
| Total Scotland | 6,197 | 43,040 | 3,557 | 46,597 |
| Total Great Britain | 40,814 | 288,389 | 28,118 | 316,507 |
There are, in addition, about 70,000 full-time and part-time ancillary staff, but the breakdown of these between individual universities is not available.