To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science, pursuant to his answer of 22 April, Official Report, columns 315–16, on recurrent and capital spending by the Government on universities and polytechnics and other institutions of higher education, if he will give actual or estimated figures for the years 1989–90 and 1990–91.
The information requested is as follows:
| £ million | ||
| 1989–90 | 1990–91 (estimated) | |
| Universities funding council | ||
| Current | 1,713 | 1,661 |
| Capital | 139 | 175 |
| Academic year | Cash expenditure £ million | Real index | Expenditure per student £ | 1Real index |
| 1989–90 | ||||
| Total | 933·9 | 87 | 2,118 | 63 |
| Fees | 316·3 | 70 | 717 | 51 |
| Maintenance | 617·6 | 99 | 1,401 | 72 |
| 1 1978–79=100. | ||||
1989–90
| 1990–91 (estimated)
| |
| Polytechnics and colleges funding council | ||
| Current | 1,024 | 1,020 |
| Capital | 90 | 88 |
| Other higher education | ||
| Current | 130 | 143 |
| Capital | 25 | 26 |
Notes:
1. The "current" figures for 1990–91 do not take into account the effect of the shift of funding from grant to publicly funded fees.
2. "Other higher Education" includes the Open University, Cranfield Institute of Technology, the Royal College of Art, British Academy postgraduates state studentships and other higher education grants.