§ MR. J. RAMSAY MACDONALD (Leicester)To ask the President of the Board of Education whether the grant of£4,000 per year paid to the University College of Wales at Aberystwyth is for general expenses or for certain specific purposes; and whether he will agree to present a Return to the House of the salaries and wages paid to the staff of the college during the last five years.
(Answered by Mr. Asquith.) The grant is in aid of the general expenses of the college. I have no official information as 942 of the cost incurred for the London University and the Imperial Institute sections of the buildings during the period the University has been accommodated there?
(Answered by Mr. Harcourt.) The charge for the external maintenance of the Imperial Institute Buildings is borne upon votes, the Imperial Institute and the University of London bear the charges for internal maintenance out of funds administered by those bodies. The expenditure defrayed by the Office of Works is as follows: the proportions being charged in the ratio of Imperial Institute two-fifths, and the London University three-fifths:—
§ to the salaries and wages paid to the college staff, which are not subject to Treasury control.