§ Sir HENRY CRAIKasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer why the full 1081W amount of grant to the Scottish universities, which was announced as £42,000, and and of which a moiety was allowed in respect of a half-year during the financial year now current, does not appear in the Estimates for the year 1911–12?
§ Mr. HOBHOUSEThe grant of £21,000 voted in 1910–11 was not a moiety of a year's grant at the rate of £42,000 a year, but a year's grant at half the ultimate rate promised, namely, £42,000. It was not intended that the full sum of £42,000 a year should be given immediately.
§ Sir HENRY CRAIKasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether the scale of salaries to the principals of the Scottish universities which was suggested by Lord Elgin's committee of inquiry, and which was adopted by the university courts, has been questioned by the Treasury officials; and whether the Treasury assumes a right to interfere in regard to the details of university expenditure so long as the claim upon the Treasury is kept within the fixed limit already announced?
§ Mr. HOBHOUSEIt was a condition of the increased grants that schemes for their allocation should be submitted by the universities for the approval of the Treasury; and, after considering the schemes, it was decided to restrict within certain limits the amounts allocated to the augmentation of the principals' salaries.