To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland whether he has determined the allocations of grant-in-aid for recurrent expenditure to grant-aided colleges in Scotland; and if he will make a statement.

The allocations are as follows:

	Offer 1991–92 £m
Craigie College of Education	1·198
Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art	3·419
Dundee Institute of Technology	6·540
Edinburgh College of Art	3·126
Glasgow Polytechnic	14·525
Glasgow School of Art	2·993
Jordanhill College of Education	8·301
Moray House College of Education	6·259
Napier Polytechnic of Edinburgh	17·799
Northern College of Education	4·618
Paisley College of Technology	9·757
Queen's College, Glasgow	3·918
Queen Margaret College	4·413
Robert Gordon Institute of Technology	11·154
RSAMD	2·314
St· Andrew's College of Education	2·914
Scottish College of Textiles	2·107

The offers, which are conditional on parliamentary approval of the supply estimates, take account of the substantial increases in the tuition fees which colleges will receive for undergraduate students under the student awards system.The system of determining grant-in-aid allocations distributes the funds available by reference to a funded number of students for each college, weighted by subject group. Some modifications in the funding system have been made for 1991–92 following consultation with the colleges, notably to transfer from grant-in-aid into aggregate external finance for local authorities most of the resources for in-service training of teachers at colleges of education; and also to reflect more closely colleges' past performance in attracting and retaining students. In addition there are substantial inward transfers from other providers of courses in professions allied to medicine and the built environment. Not counting these transfers, the number of students for whom grant-in-aid provision has been made has been increased by about 7 per cent. in 1991–92 in recognition of the success of the sector in attracting additional students.The grant allocations take account of the further substantial increases in the level of the publicly-funded undergraduate tuition fees to be paid to colleges as from September 1991 and, after adjusting for transfers, the allocations .represent an increase in Government funding of about £20 million; or 14 per cent. compared with the current year if colleges achieve their funded student enrolments. The table shows how grant-in-aid plus estimated tuition fees for funded students will change for individual colleges.