Higher Education Institutions

HC Deb 29 October 1996 vol 284 cc87-8W

Mr. Pickthall

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if she will list those higher education institutions which do not have cash reserves to cover 30 days of total expenditure. [790]

Mr. Forth

No. The information requested is commercially sensitive and, if published, could damage the financial health of individual universities and colleges.

Mr. Pickthall

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if she will list, by higher education institution, reductions in(a) academic and (b) non-academic staff in 1996. [791]

Mr. Forth

The higher education statistics agency collects data on academic and non-academic staff in higher education institutions. Information for 1995–96 is not yet available.