HC Deb 19 December 1975 vol 902 c863W
Mr. Faulds

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will publish the substance of his reply of 5th December to the Standing Commission on Museums and Galleries regarding the financing of the care of material and records derived from rescue archaeology at local museums.

Mr. Hugh Jenkins

On the issue of storage of material and records the letter from my Department recalled that the document forwarded by the Standing Commission suggested that the matter was primarily one for initiative by the Department of the Environment as the occasion for the flood of objects arises mainly from their programme of rescue archaeology. The letter said that that

1970 1974
Polytechnic Full-time and Sandwich Part-time Day and Block Release Full-time and Sandwich Part-time Day and Block Release
Birmingham* 40.8 59.2 36.9
Brighton 53.2 46.8 23.4 60.8 39.2 23.2
Bristol 25.1 74.9 52.5 45.0 55.0 34.2
Hatfield 62.8 37.2 33.4 60.8 39.2 31.6
Huddersfield 35.6 64.4 30.9 58.0 42.0 25.6
Lanchester 63.2 36.7 11.7 65.3 34.6 10.8
Leeds 41.5 58.5 28.8 45.2 54.8 15.7
Leicester 42.7 57.3 27.2 51.4 48.6 24.1
Liverpool 34.7 65.3 34.8 58.6 41.4 26.9
Kingston 63.2 36.9 18.8 72.8 27.2 16.5
Middlesex* 70.1 30.0 15.9
North East London 46.6 53.3 33.6 58.0 42.0 25.0
City of London 22.4 77.6 17.5 24.2 75.8 18.3
Central London 30.4 69.6 10.4 29.9 70.1 3.3
North London* 75.0 25.0 11.2
South Bank 31.4 68.7 28.9 43.1 56.9 36.2
Thames 53.5 46.5 27.0 59.3 40.7 27.5
Manchester 45.0 55.1 35.8 53.1 46.9 30.2
Newcastle-upon-Tyne 45.8 54.2 33.0 56.9 43.1 26.1
North Staffordshire 360 64.0 49.1 49.7 50.4 41.9
Oxford 39.8 60.2 38.8 65.7 34.3 29.1
Plymouth 66.4 33.6 20.4 78.3 21.7 16.5
Portsmouth 81.4 18.7 15.2 86.7 13.4 11.0
Preston* 35.0 65.0 48.0
Sheffield 36.5 63.5 33.2 48.1 51.9 36.2
Sunderland 68.1 31.9 14.7 64.9 35.0 18.2
Teesside 36.5 63.6 42.1 45.7 54.3 38.6
Trent 46.6 53.3 35.2 56.2 43.8 31.7
Wolverhampton 38.7 61.4 43.5 44.2 55.8 42.4
Polytechnic of Wales† 42.8 57.3 48.1 55.9 44.0 37.8
* Not designated at 1st November 1970.
†Formerly Glamorgan Polytechnic