§ Dr. Hampsonasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what assumptions were made regarding increases in salaries and wages and the effects of inflation on non-pay items of expenditure in the determination of the 1977–78 recurrent grant for universities, announced on 28th March 1977.
§ Mr. OakesThe assumptions used in the 1977–78 recurrent grant settlement conformed to those which underlay the calculation of cash limits generally for 1977–78, announced in Cmnd. 6767. The assumptions on salary increases were consistent with the second stage of pay policy which continues until 31st July 1977. Thereafter an increase at an annual rate of 5 per cent. was assumed. The assumption on non-pay increases was consistent with an expected trend of general price rises of about 13 per cent. at an annual rate by the fourth quarter of 1977, with some decrease thereafter.
§ Mr. Mackintoshasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if she will publish for each university in receipt 567W of grants from the University Grants Committee the amount of recurrent grant and of furniture and equipment grant for 1977–78.
1977–78 RECURRENT GRANT AND FURNITURE AND EQUIPMENT GRANT ALLOCATIONS University or College Recurrent grant Furniture and equipment grant £m. £m. Aston … … … … … 7.641 0.836 Bath … … … … … 4.961 0.321 Birmingham … … … … … 16.920 0.860 Bradford … … … … … 8.083 0.453 Bristol … … … … … 12.556 0.718 Brunel … … … … … 5.100 0.332 Cambridge … … … … … 17.160 0.973 City … … … … … 5.620 0.399 Durham … … … … … 5.889 0.318 East Anglia … … … … … 5.458 0.404 Essex … … … … … 3.817 0.263 Exeter … … … … … 5.462 0.254 Hull … … … … … 6.238 0.293 Keele … … … … … 4.080 0.160 Kent … … … … … 4.130 0.309 Lancaster … … … … … 5.314 0.385 Leeds … … … … … 17.639 1.776 Leicester … … … … … 6.564 1.062 Liverpool … … … … … 15.593 1.177 London Graduate School of Business Studies … … … 0.474 0.007 London University … … … … … 112.591 7.556 Loughborough … … … … … 7.167 0.497 Manchester Business School … … … … … 0.462 0.005 Manchester … … … … … 20.792 0.934 University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology 8.795 0.675 Newcastle … … … … … 12.718 1.051 Nottingham … … … … … 10.552 0.901 Oxford … … … … … 17.670 1.368 Reading … … … … … 8.280 0.470 Salford … … … … … 8.229 0.655 Sheffield … … … … … 13.074 1.060 Southampton … … … … … 9.994 0.707 Surrey … … … … … 6.313 0.402 Sussex … … … … … 6.568 0.337 Warwick … … … … … 5.354 0.303 York … … … … … 3.931 0.402 University of Wales … … … … … 30.488 1.724 Aberdeen … … … … … 10.909 0.580 Dundee … … … … … 7.004 0.536 Edinburgh … … … … … 18.537 0.773 Glasgow … … … … … 17.855 1.104 HeriotWatt … … … … … 4.389 0.310 St. Andrews … … … … … 4.932 0.280 Stirling … … … … … 3.630 0.205 Strathclyde … … … … … 9.541 0.715 Reserve for local authority rates … … … … 32.000 0.250* General Reserve … … … … … 2.526 Total Great Britain … … … … … 553.000 35.100 * Reserve. The total recurrent grant excludes provision for the recent increase in National Insurance contributions from which universities, as charities, have been exempted.