§ Mr. Michael McGuireasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will give details of the total number of people employed on research in universities in England and Wales, giving (a) those employed whole-time, (b) those 728W employed part-time, (c) the average length of contract in each case, (d) the numbers made redundant in each of the last five years because their contracts were not renewed, and (f) the number made redundant in this period who did not qualify for redundancy payments.
§ Dr. BoysonThis information is not available. In 1977–78, of the full-time academic staff employed in universities in England and Wales, 25,000 were wholly or partly financed by universities and very few of these were employed wholly on research; about 6,000 were not university financed and some 5,000 of them were engaged full-time on research.