§ 54. Mr. Willeyasked the Secretary to the Treasury what progress has been made with the university building projects designed to provide for the increase of 106,000 in the number of university students by the mid-1960s.
§ Mr. SimonI would refer the hon. Member to my right hon. Friend's statement of 20th February regarding the increased number of students now expected in the 1960s and the building programmes for the years 1960–63 which have been provisionally approved.
Good progress has been made with buildings included in earlier programmes and with the planning of buildings which are to be started in 1958 and 1959.