§ Sir E. Keelingasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury the total assistance per university undergraduate per annum by way of grants to the university or scholarships to the undergraduate.
§ Mr. Boyd-CarpenterThe estimated cost of Exchequer grants to universities 31W and colleges in the present financial year is £25,354,500 (including £7 million for non-recurrent capital grants). These grants form part of the resources from which the universities have to finance not only the teaching of undergraduates but also research and other original work and the supervision of graduate students. It is not possible to estimate the cost of these functions separately, and it would be meaningless to express them as a figure per caput of undergraduates. The total number of full-time students in the year 1950–51 was 85,314.
I understand that in the current year the direct charge on the Vote of my right hon. Friend the Minister of Education for awards to students at universities amounts to some £4 million. In addition she admits for grant the expenditure of local education authorities on awards to university students. The grant charge for 1951–52 is estimated to be about £3 million; no later figures are available.