HC Deb 18 February 1971 vol 811 c542W
88. Mr. Jeffrey Archer

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science whether she has studied the proposal to establish a self-supporting university free of direct State financial support, details of which have been sent to her; and what estimate she has made of the implications of the project on her Department's plans for the future of higher education.

Mrs. Thatcher

Yes, with interest, but it is too early to estimate the probable contribution of this project to the expansion of higher education provision.