§ 62. Mr. Lipsonasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what steps he is taking to provide the staff-equipment and accommodation necessary to enable all would-be medical students of satisfactory qualifications to obtain the medical training they need, but are at present unable to obtain, owing to the limited facilities available at existing medical schools.
§ Mr. DaltonThe Grant in Aid of Universities provides, both last year and this year, £1 million for additional annual grants for medical education and £500,000 for additional annual grants to teaching hospitals. This year's increased grant also includes £2,500,000 for capital grants to Universities, including medical schools.
§ Mr. LipsonWill my right hon. Friend take steps to find out whether the money is being spent to secure these provisions, in view of the fact that the present short age of facilities is particularly hard on very large numbers of women who want to be doctors but cannot obtain admission to any medical school?
§ Mr. DaltonAll I can do is to provide the money. It is not my business to interfere meticulously with how the universities spend it, and I would not propose to do that.
§ Mr. LipsonBut in view of the fact that the money is provided for a very special purpose, is the Chancellor not entitled to see that it is being spent for the purpose specified?
§ Mr. DaltonI shall get to know.
§ 63. Mr. E. Fletcherasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether he is prepared to formulate any plans for a considerable extension of facilities for university education.
§ The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Glenvil Hall)I am not in a position to add to the reply I gave on the 28th February to my hon. Friend the Member for Penrhyn and Falmouth (Mr. King).
§ Mr. W. J. BrownIs not the Minister aware that a negative and unsatisfactory reply given by reference to an earlier negative and unsatisfactory reply, still remains negative and unsatisfactory?