§ Mr. D. E. Wigleyasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what were the total sums spent on grants to students in full-time higher and further 355W education in each county of Wales and in Wales as a whole for the last available year.
§ Mr. PrenticeThe sums spent by each local education authority in Wales in the academic year 1972–73—the latest year for which complete figures are available—on grants to full-time and sandwich course students in higher and further education are given below. These exclude expenditure on awards for courses of less than one academic year's duration and those which include no payment for maintenance.
Counties £'000 Anglesey … … … 224 Breconshire … … … 204 Caernarvonshire … … … 540 Cardiganshire … … … 382 Carmarthenshire … … … 643 Denbighshire … … … 624 Flintshire … … … 456 Glamorgan … … … 2,078 Merioneth … … … 160 Monmouthshire … … … 990 Montgomeryshire … … … 151 Pembrokeshire … … … 454 Radnorshire … … … 63 Total Counties 6,970
County Boroughs Cardiff … … … 789 Merthyr Tydfil … … … 134 Newport (Mon) … … … 271 Swansea … … … 472 Total County Boroughs 1,666 Total Wales 8,636