§ Mrs. Renée Shortasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will allow the cuts in university expenditure to be spread over five years instead of three in order to allow time for staff reductions by natural wastage and early retirement schemes instead of redundancy.
§ Mr. WaldegraveNo decisions have yet been taken about grants to universities for 1982–83 and later years, but it is unlikely that it will be possible to reduce the level of funding for the university system more slowly than is implied by Cmnd. 8175.