HC Deb 24 February 1989 vol 147 cc804-5W
Mr. Andrew Smith

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science, pursuant to his reply to the hon. Member for Oxford, East, 10 February,Official Report, column 844, if he will express the annual cash increases in recurrent and capital grants made to universities in real terms; if he will give the same figures for grants to polytechnics; and what was the total increase in recurrent and capital grants between 1979–80 and 1988–89 for (a) universities and (b) polytechnics.

Mr. Jackson

Total grants made to the universities on the advice of the University Grants Committee are set out and show a 13.3 per cent. increase over the period in question. For polytechnics, information on allocations from the advanced further education pool plus capital expenditure by local authorities is available for only the years shown. All figures are in 1987–88 real terms.

Financial years Universities(Great Britain)(£ million) Polytechnics(England)(£ million)
1979–80 1,433.2 n.a.
1980–81 1,542.8 n.a.
1981–82 1,445.4 n.a.
1982–83 1,615.9 517.8
1983–84 1,596.5 500.8
1984–85 1,559.3 488.2
1985–86 1,523.9 481.1
1986–87 1,526.8 514.6
1987–88 1,592.8 n.a.
1988–89 1,623.5 n.a.

Mr. Andrew Smith

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science, pursuant to his reply to the lion. Member for Oxford, East, 10 February,Official Report, columns 843–44, if he will publish the net institutional expenditure per student table, expressing each annual increase in real terms; and what was the real increase between 1978–79 and 1986–87 in net institutional expenditure per student for (i) universities, (ii) polytechnics, (iii) OMEs (FE) and (iv) OMEs (HE).

Mr. Jackson

The data requested are listed. The real terms figures are compared between 1979–80 and 1986–87 as comparable figures are not available for 1978–79 in polytechnics and other maintained establishments (0M.Es) in either further education (FE) or higher education (HE).

Net institutional expenditure per FTE student at 1986–87 prices
1979–80

(£)

 1980–81

(£)

 1981–82 1982–83

(£)

 1983–84

(£)

 1984–85

(£)

 1985–86

(£)

 1986–87

(£)

 Percentage change inexpenditure between

1979–80 and 1986–87
Universities (Great Britain)
Cash terms 3,074 3,929 4,178 4,599 4,843 5,035 5,176 5,276
Real terms 5,126 5,533 5,355 5,502 5,542 5,484 5,349 5,276 +3
Polytechnics (England)
Cash terms 2,506 2,988 3,121 3,157 2,990 3,030 3,150 3,325
Real terms 4,179 4,207 4,001 3,777 3,421 3,300 3,255 3,325 - 20
OMEs (FE) (England)
Cash terms 1,335 1,644 1,898 1,924 2,095 2,190 2,320 2,430
Real terms 2,226 2,315 2,433 2,302 2,397 2,385 2,397 2,430 +9
OMEs (HE) (England)
Cast terms 2,069 2,548 2,725 2,822 3,010 3,120 3,020 3,170
Real terms 3,451 3,588 3,493 3,376 3,444 3,398 3,121 3,170 - 8

I regret that in my earlier reply the figures for universities were in real terms while those for polytechnics and OMEs were in cash terms.