§ Mr. Ray Powellasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science (1) what is his Department's estimate of the effect of the proposals contained in the public expenditure White Paper on the intake of students into the universities in Wales.
(2) what is his Department's estimate of the effect of the proposals contained in the public expenditure White Paper on the number of lecturers employed in the universities in Wales.
§ Dr. BoysonI am unable to estimate the effects on staff or student numbers at individual universities of the proposals contained in the recent White Paper, "The Government's Expenditure Plans 1981–82 to 1983–84" (Cmnd. 8175). These will depend in part on the admission policies of the universities, partly on the allocation of grants to individual universities by the University Grants Committee, and partly on the way in which each university decides how to utilise its resources.