§ Mr. Dormandasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if she will state the number and location of all polytechnics and make a statement concerning the future of polytechnics.
§ Mr. van StraubenzeeTwenty-eight polytechnics have now been established. The following list includes the locations of main sites where appropriate: Birmingham, Brighton, Bristol, Central London, City of London, Glamorgan (Pontypridd), Hatfield, Huddersfield, Kingston (Kingston-upon-Thames), Lanchester (Coventry and Rugby), Leeds, Leicester, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, North-East London, North London, North Staffordshire (Stoke and Stafford), Oxford, Plymouth, Portsmouth, Sheffield, South Bank (South London), Sunderland, Teesside, Thames (South-East London), Trent (Nottingham) and Wolverhampton.
Two further polytechnics have yet to be formally designated, one (to be maintained jointly by the London Boroughs of Barnet, Enfield and Haringey and to be called the Middlesex Polytechnic) and one in central Lancashire (to be main- 272W tamed jointly by the Preston and Lancashire Authorities).
These 30 polytechnics will play an increasingly important part in meeting demand for higher education, and large building programmes are now under way. They are financed by local education authorities and provide opportunities in a diversity of subjects and at a number of levels, as envisaged in the White Paper "A Plan for Polytechnics and other Colleges" of 1966.