§ Mr. Jannerasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what is the present amount allocated by the University Grants Committee to each of the universities in Great Britain; what grants have been asked for by each of these universities in respect of the next financial year; and to what extent the University Grants Committee has met these requests.
§ Mr. DaltonThe grants to university institutions for the academic year 1945–6 are as shown in the following statement:
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Recurrent Grants. Non-Recurrent Grants. £ £ Birmingham University … … … … … … £187,500 £30,000 Bristol University (including Faculty of Engineering at Bristol Merchant Venturers'Technical College) … … … … 140,750 28,500 Cambridge University … … … … … … … 268,500 21,000 Durham University, including the Durham Division and the Newcastle Division … … … … … … … 173.350 87,500 Exeter University College … … … … … … 40,500 34.750 Hull University College … … … … … … 30,000 16,750 Leeds University … … … … … … … 146,500 37,000 Leicester University College … … … … … … 12,000 7,500 Liverpool University … … … … … … … 178,000 18,000 London University, including its Colleges and Schools … … 1,512,250 557.000 Manchester University … … … … … … 191,500 117,500 Manchester College of Technology … … … … … 21,000 Nottingham University College … … … … … 53,000 73,000 Oxford University … … … … … … … 242,000 41.250 Reading University … … … … … … … 59.500 43.300 Sheffield University … … … … … … … 111,500 35,500 Southampton University College … … … … … 37.50O 24,000 TOTAL ENGLAND … … … … 3.405.350 1,172,550 University of Wales, including Aberystwyth, Bangor, Cardiff and Swansea University Colleges and the Welsh National School of Medicine; … … … … … … … … 295,000 48,000 TOTAL WALES … … … … 295,000 48,000 Aberdeen University … … … … … … … 105,000 34.500 Edinburgh University … … … … … … … 195,300 14,200 Glasgow University … … … … … … … 212,700 41,500 Glasgow Royal Technical College … … … … … 27.750 St. Andrews University, including Dundee University College … 94,500 53.750 Total Scotland … … … … 635,250* 143.950 Grand Total, Great Britain … … 4.335.600 1,364.500 * Includes £30,000 payable to these Universities under the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1929.(19& 20 Geo. 5. c. 25.) The estimates of the universities on which grants will be assessed for the academic financial year beginning next August are not yet in the hands of the UniversityGrants Committee.