§ Mr. Newtonasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what evi-
Engineering and technology Science First degree Postgraduate First degree Postgraduate Lanchester Polytechnic 998 57 746 — Maintained, grant-aided and assisted establishments of further education in England and Wales 16,399 1,860 10,482 867 Undergraduate Postgraduate Undergraduate Postgraduate University of Warwick 299 54 900 236 British universities (excluding Open University) 33.773 9010 52,511 14,667 During the current academic year, Lanchester Polytechnic reported about 60 vacancies for first-year students in these courses, while all further education establishments reported that some 2,200 additional students could be admitted to couses of this type within existing resources, though it is difficult to get consistent statistics in this field. I am told that the University of Warwick has no first-year vacancies in these subjects but such information is not available on a national basis for universities.