§ Mr. HOPKINSasked the President of the Board of Education whether he will supply a Return setting forth the allocation of the Exchequer grants for university colleges, recurrent and non-recurrent, for the last financial year.; and how much of this grant was expended in financing new departures, such as the financing of the University of Cambridge and grants towards the salaries of heads of clinical units in hospitals?
Mr. YOUNGReturns from universities and colleges in receipt of Treasury grants for the academic year 1919–20 have already been presented to Parliament (Cmd. 1263), and they give the information referred to by the hon. Member as far as it is yet available. Similar returns will be presented annually.
§ Mr. HOPKINSasked the President of the Board of Education what are the principles and Regulations under which the University Grants Committee is to recommend the distribution of the Parliamentary grants recently approved by Parliament for the coming quinquennium; is it an implied condition in the allocation of financial aid to university colleges from the extra grant voted by Parliament that they should obtain equal financial assistance from local authorities, and is this principle also to be applied to grants made for the formation of clinical units in hospitals; has the principle of giving building grants to university colleges been authorised, and, if so, the principles on which such grants are to be made; and is it intended to supply Government funds to raise the salaries of the more important professors in university colleges to the same figure, namely, £2,000 per annum, as has been fixed for the salaries of the professors who act as the heads of the newly instituted clinical units in hospitals?
Mr. YOUNGThe general principles on which the University Grants Committee base their recommendations for the allocation of grants are set out in the Report of the Committee dated 3rd February, 1921, and in the letter addressed by my right hon. Friend to Sir William McCormick, printed as an Appendix to the Report, which has already been presented to Parliament. 337W As there stated, great importance is attached to the amount of support provided from local sources in calculating the grants payable to the different institutions, but, except in the case of the University of Wales, there is no undertaking by the Government to make grants on the basis of pound for pound in respect of rate aid. The Committee are authorised to recommend capital grants for sites, buildings, and permanent equipment if the funds at their disposal allow, but no such recommendations have yet been made. The responsibility for fixing the salaries of the teaching staffs rests with the authorities of each institution.