§ Mr. WorthingtonTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science how many Universities Funding Council funded full-time lecturing staff there were in 1979; and how many there were at the most recent count.
§ Mr. Alan HowarthUniversities derive their funds from a variety of sources including the Universities Funding Council, and before it the University Grants Committee. The total number of wholly-university funded full-time academic staff with teaching and research duties in United Kingdom universities was 33,173 in 1979–80 and 30.644 in 1990–91. UGC and UFC funds respectively will have provided partial support for virtually all of these posts.