§ Dr. Roger Thomasasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what effect he envisages (a) the reduction in the number of overseas students, (b) the 3.5 per cent. cut in the Government funding of higher education and (c) the deepening economic depression will have upon the numbers of undergraduate student places available at London medical schools and colleges; and how the staff-to-student ratio at such institutions that continue in existence will be affected.
§ Dr. BoysonMy right hon. and learned Friend is unable to estimate the effects on staff and student numbers at individual universities, or their institutes, of the Government's expenditure plans for higher education. These will depend in part on the admission policies of the universities, partly on the distribution of grants to individual universities by the University Grants Committee, and partly on the way in which each university allocates its resources.