§ Mrs. Ewingasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will give details of the cost of education per full-time university student in Scotland, England and Wales, respectively; and what proportion of this cost in each case is met by Government grants.
§ Mrs. Shirley Williams:I regret that, because of the difficulty of allocating expenditure between teaching and research and for other reasons, it is not possible to give an Answer in the form requested. However, Tables 1 and 20–23 of "Returns from Universities and University Colleges, 1965–66" (Cmnd. 3586) give information about numbers of students and the finances of universities. Similar information for 1966–67 will be given in Volume 6 of "Statistics of Education 1966" which will be published shortly.