§ Mr. William Hamiltonasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what was the total public expenditure on universities in each of the last eight years, expressed in actual and in 1960 prices.
§ Mrs. Shirley WilliamsFollowing is the information:
GRANTS PAID ON THE ADVICE OF THE UNIVERSITY GRANTS COMMITTEE AND, SINCE 1967, THE COMPUTER BOARD, TO UNIVERSITY INSTITUTIONS IN SCOTLAND Financial Year £m. 1960–61 8.6 1961–62 10.8 1962–63 11.9 1963–64 15.5 1964–65 18.9 1965–66 25.1 1966–67 30.9 1967–68 34.8 Notes:
(1) The figures comprise both capital and recurrent grants. They exclude awards paid to university students.
(2) From 1965–66 the figures include grants paid to the former Heriot-Watt College, Edinburgh and the Scottish College of Commerce.
I regret that the difficulties of expressing statistics of public expenditure for past years in terms of constant prices are such that I do not feel able to revalue the figures in terms of 1960 prices, but there has undoubtedly been a substantial increase in the past eight years in real terms.