§ Mr. T. GRIFFITHSasked the Prime Minister whether, in view of the facts that a Government grant of £30,000 a year has been made to five London hospitals where clinical units have been set up, that a Government grant of £16,000 has been promised this year to the London Hospital, in which is included £3,000 from the University Grants Committee, and that the last-named hospital now excludes women medical students altogether, and of the remaining four, one only admits them without restrictions, it is the intention of the Government to intervene in any way so that those who accept public money do not discriminate against one section of the public which contributes the money?
Sir A. MONOThe question of the admission of students to university institutions is essentially for the discretion of the university authorities, with whose autonomy the Government desire to interfere as little as possible. As my right hon. Friend explained in his reply on the 2nd April to the hon. and gallant Member for Central Wands-worth (Lieut.-Colonel Sir J. Norton-Griffiths), the Government have no information indicating that the facilities for university education in medicine of qualified women are inadequate. I would remind the hon. Member that admission to the London (Royal Free Hospital) School of Medicine, which is also grant-aided, is wholly confined to women.