§ Mrs. Renée Shortasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will list the 21 polytechnics to which he has allotted financial support for research purposes, the degree of this support to each polytechnic individually and the period of time over which it will last.
§ Sir Keith JosephThe institutions (not all of them polytechnics) to which allocations specifically for research proposals have been made from the advanced further education pool for 1985–86, together with the allocation made to each, are as listed.
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£'000s Central London polytechnic 150 Coventry polytechnic 150 Hatfield polytechnic 150 Kingston polytechnic 150 Leicester polytechnic 150 Liverpool polytechnic 150 Newcastle polytechnic 150 Plymouth polytechnic 150 Portsmouth polytechnic 150 South Bank polytechnic 150 Trent polytechnic 150 Brighton polytechnic 100 Camborne school of mines 100 Manchester polytechnic 100 Sheffield city polytechnic 100 Bristol polytechnic 75 City of London polytechnic 75 Lancashire polytechnic 75 Teesside polytechnic 75 Thames polytechnic 75 Wolverhampton polytechnic 75 TOTAL 2,500 The NAB has advised that allocations should be maintained at least at existing levels for three years in the first instance.