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Building Programmes

Volume 174: debated on Wednesday 13 June 1990

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To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science how much public money has been spent in real terms on major building programmes in maintained further and higher education for each academic year from September 1979 to August 1989, inclusive.

The information (by financial rather than academic year) is as follows:

Capital expenditure on maintained further and higher education (1979–80 prices)
£ million
1979–8082·2
1980–81108·2
1981–8276·4
1982–8388·7
1983–8484·4
1984–8587·4
1985–8688·5
1986–8794·1
1987–8873·5
1988–8976·8
The figures refer to gross capital expenditure in England, and include expenditure from the urban programme.