Universities (Expenditure)

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To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will give central Government spending on universities per head of university population since 1979 at constant prices, including planned expenditure per head for 1988–89 to 1990–91, together with the intake to universities of undergraduate students for each of these years.

[holding answer 10 June 1988]: In the following table Government expenditure has been taken as University Grants Committee recurrent grant to universities in Great Britain plus home student fee income. Per capita figures for each financial year have been derived by dividing by full-time equivalent home student numbers. The figures are at constant 1986–87 prices as measured by the gross domestic product deflator. The full-time home undergraduate student intake shown relates to the corresponding academic year.

	Government expenditure per student	New Undergraduate entrants
	£ (constant prices)	000's
1979–80	5,421	74·7
1980–81	5,773	76·4
1981–82	5,589	74·0
1982–83	5,796	71·6
1983–84	5,830	69·2

	Government expenditure per student	New Undergraduate entrants
	£ (constant prices)	000's
1984–85	5,790	70·5
1985–86	5,606	70·3
1986–87	5,552	70·7
1987–88¹	5,753	72·0
1988–89¹	5,829	73·6
1989–90¹	5,741	75·7
1990–91¹	5,621	74·2
¹ Based on estimated figures.

Average expenditure (£) per pupil ¹
(Maintained, Nursery, Primary, Secondary and Special Schools—England)
Year	Teacher salaries ²		Seconded teacher salaries		Repair and maintained buildings		Text and library books		Educational equipment ³		School meals and milk
	Cash terms	Real terms	Cash terms	Real terms	Cash terms	Real terms	Cash terms	Real terms	Cash terms	Real terms	Cash terms	Real terms
1979–80	365	610	2	3	n/a	n/a	6	10	14	23	50	84
1980–81	473	666	2	3	n/a	n/a	7	10	16	23	49	69
1981–82	539	691	2	3	29	37	7	9	18	23	50	64
1982–83	586	701	3	4	34	41	8	10	21	25	53	63
1983–84	627	716	4	5	39	45	9	10	23	26	57	65
1984–85	665	728	6	7	41	45	9	10	25	27	59	65
1985–86	716	739	7	7	41	42	9	9	26	27	60	62
1986–87	800	800	11	11	48	48	11	11	32	32	64	64
¹ Based on returns of expenditure to the Department of the Environment and of pupil numbers to the Department of Education and Science.
² Excluding seconded teacher salaries.
³ Expenditure levels for different types of equipment are not available. The figures in the table show the overall expenditure on educational equipment.

Note: The case figures for the earlier years have been repriced to 1986–87 real terms using the Gross Domestic Product (Market Prices) Deflator.

Volume 135: debated on Monday 13 June 1988