HC Deb 25 January 1983 vol 35 c375W
21. Mr. Strang

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what is his latest estimate of the money spent on redundancy payments to academic staff at universities in the current financial year.

Mr. Waldegrave

The University Grants Committee estimates that in the 1982–83 financial year universities will be reimbursed about £40 million for compensation payments to academic and academic related university staff under the terms announced by my right hon. Friend on 25 January 1982.—[Vol. 16, c.275.]