§ 59. Mr. Swinglerasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what are his latest figures of the total number of university places in the United Kingdom, and the ratio per 1,000 of population; and if he will, from information sugplied to him by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, make a comparison between these figures and those for the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
§ Sir E. BoyleThe full-time university student population in the United Kingdom was some 106,000 during the academic year 1959–60. This figure represented 2 per 1,000 of the total population in June, 1959. A comparison between different countries, based on present information, could be most misleading.