§ Mr. Ashleyasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will estimate how many medical institutions doing research and now receiving a university grant will be likely, by 1982–83, to have had that grant cut by a percentage greater than that likely to be applied to universities as a whole, following the implementation of the decision not to subsidise overseas students; what effect he considers these cuts will have on medical research; and if he will make a statement.
§ Dr. BoysonIt is not possible, at this stage, to assess the extent to which particular faculties within a university will have their resources reduced as a result of the decision to remove progressively the current subsidy in respect of overseas students, or what effect this will have on the work of those faculties. This is partly because decisions have not yet been taken on the levels of recurrent grant to be made available to universities as a whole in 1980–81 and subsequent years, but also because the allocation of grant to individual universities and the distribution of that grant between particular faculties within a university are essentially matters for the University Grants Committee and the university authorities respectively.