Written Answers
Building Society Interest Payments To Charitable Trusts
asked Her Majesty's Government:Whether arrangements can be made for the payment by building societies of interest gross to charitable trusts in the same way as a gross interest payment is made to an exempt pension fund.
I have noted the noble Lord's suggestion.
Eec Students: Tuition Fees
asked Her Majesty's Government:What arrangements have been made to ensure that students from other EEC member states who are attending residential courses in the United Kingdom will be treated both for boarding and tuition as British nationals.
Students from European Community countries on full-time and sandwich courses throughout the United Kingdom are only liable for the home rate of tuition fee. Institutions should be aware of this arrangement as a result of advice issued by Government departments and, where appropriate, the relevant body representing local education authorities. So far as residence charges are concerned, differential fees apply only at institutions maintained by local education authorities in England and Wales where higher fees are charged to students coming from outside England and Wales. My department has been considering how best to eliminate the differential in rates charged at maintained institutions in England and Wales and following preliminary soundings, officials of the department will shortly meet representatives of the local authority associations to discuss the matter.
Defence: Annual Expenditure
asked Her Majesty's Government:Whether they will publish in the
Official Report the annual expenditure on defence from 1946–47 up to and including sums voted for 1981–82, in amplification of the Written Answer given on 4th March 1976 (col. 1197), stating the figure for the total expenditure from 1946–47 to 1981–82.
Expenditure on defence since 1946–47 including the estimates for the current year totals £111,696 million. Figures for the individual years are set out below; there are some very minor changes from those figures in the Answer to the noble Lord on 4th March 1976.
| Defence Expenditure 1946–47 to 1981–82 | |||
| £ million | £ million | ||
| 1946–47 | 1,643 | 1964–65 | 1,898 |
| 1947–48 | 847 | 1965–66 | 2,050 |
| 1948–49 | 753 | 1966–67 | 2,138 |
| 1949–50 | 735 | 1967–68 | 2,230 |
| 1950–51 | 801 | 1968–69 | 2,247 |
| 1951–52 | 1,132 | 1969–70 | 2,216 |
| 1952–53 | 1,393 | 1970–71 | 2,503 |
| 1953–54 | 1,358 | 1971–72 | 2,836 |
| 1954–55 | 1,447 | 1972–73 | 3,092 |
| 1955–56 | 1,407 | 1973–74 | 3,484 |
| 1956–57 | 1,519 | 1974–75 | 4,164 |
| 1957–58 | 1,440 | 1975–76 | 5,346 |
| 1958–59 | 1,451 | 1976–77 | 6,158 |
| 1959–60 | 1,484 | 1977–78 | 6,788 |
| 1960–61 | 1,604 | 1978–79 | 7,456 |
| 1961–62 | 1,684 | 1979–80 | 9,178 |
| 1962–63 | 1,756 | 1980–81 | 11,375* |
| 1963–64 | 1,809 | 1981–82 | 12,274** |
| * Provisional outturn consistent with Cmnd. 8175. | |||
| ** Estimates. | |||