§ Mr. Freudasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what is the percentage change in funding to each university by the Universities Grants Committee in each year since 1981.
§ Mr. BrookeThe percentage change in funding to each university by the University Grants Committee in each year between the academic years 1981–82 and 1983–84 (the latest year for which complete figures are available) is given below. The figures are based on the total recurrent grants paid to universities through the University Grants Committee plus the equipment and furniture grant. They exclude other non-recurrent Exchequer grants. The figures reflect a number of funding changes including the additions made to recurrent grant to compensate for changes in the level of the home undergraduate fee, the cost of compensating staff for redundancy or early retirement and changes to take account of the increase in the value of minor capital works that can be funded from recurrent grant. The different level of local authority rates and the inclusion of the costs of staff compensation make the changes from year to year and comparisons between individual universities potentially misleading.
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University Percentage change between 1981–82 and 1982–83 Percentage change between 1982–83 and 1983–84* Aston 19.9 -3.6 Bath 24.4 5.1 Birmingham 19.2 2.3 Bradford 20.1 1.0 Bristol 25.0 1.0 Brunel 13.3 -1.4 Cambridge 21.4 3.6 City 18.5 -6.7 Durham 21.7 4.1 East Anglia 23.3 -3.6 Essex 23.0 4.1 Exeter 30.1 2.3 Hull 22.4 4.7 Keele 17.3 -5.7 Kent 19.0 7.0 Lancaster 26.5 5.0 Leeds 16.5 4.5 Leicester 25.4 1.0 Liverpool 16.4 3.3 London Graduate School of Business Studies 16.7 11.3 London University 7.9 1.4 Loughborough 22.7 5.9 Manchester Business School 0.6 -3.0 Manchester University 12.7 4.2 University of Science and Technology 33.5 -15.7 Newcastle 18.2 4.0 Nottingham 21.7 3.2 Oxford 20.2 5.0 Reading 21.8 2.5 Salford 45.8 -15.4 Sheffield 18.5 0.9 Southampton 28.7 -3.3 Surrey 29.1 -2.1 Sussex 24.3 -0.9 Warwick 26.7 4.0 York 26.3 5.8 Aberysthwyth U.C. 19.3 7.5 Bangor U.C. 24.8 -5.2 Cardiff U.C. 24.0 5.0 St. David's, Lampeter 56.2 5.9 Swansea U.C. 12.8 2.5
University Percentage change between 1981–82 and 1982–83 Percentage change between 1982–83 and 1983–84* University of Wales Institute of Science and Technology 24.8 8.6 Welsh National School of Medicine 18.8 0.3 Aberdeen 13.0 1.0 Dundee 25.1 -0.8 Edinburgh 16.3 0.4 Glasgow 18.4 6.5 Heriot-Watt 19.9 2.2 St. Andrews 15.9 -0.8 Stirling 21.6 -1.1 Strathclyde 13.7 2.5 * Based on provisional figures for 1983–84.