HC Deb 28 February 1972 vol 832 cc46-7W
Mr. MacArthur

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if she will now publish for each university in receipt of grant from the University Grants Committee, the amount of provisional recurrent grant for 1972–73 and the student members' target for 1972–73 to which the grant is related.

Mrs. Thatcher

Universities have been notified of the following provisional allocations of recurrent grant by the University Grants Committee:

University £000
Aston 4,105
Bath 2,152
Birmingham 8,734
Bradford 3,823
Bristol 6,477
Brunel 2,373
Cambridge 9,391
City 2,740
Durham 2,907
East Anglia 2,490
Essex 1,848
Exeter 2,772
Hull 3,212
Keele 1,792
Kent 2,061
Lancaster 2,381
Leeds 8,829
Leicester 2,822
Liverpool 7,830
London Graduate School of Business Studies 141
London 50,742
Loughborough 2,582
Manchester School of Business Studies 147
Manchester 9,614
University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology 4,591
Newcastle 6,555
Nottingham 5,109
Oxford 9,494
Reading 4,335
Salford 4,158
Sheffield 6,549
Southampton 4,632
Surrey 2,831
Sussex 3,408
Warwick 2,313
York 2,067
Wales 13,889
Aberdeen 4,805
Dundee 3,115
Edinburgh 9,574
Glasgow 8,876
Heriot-Watt 1,559
St. Andrews 2,137
Stirling 1,592
Strathclyde 4,801
Total 248,355

I understand that the Committee has not fixed specific targets of student numbers for individual universities for 1972–73.