HC Deb 22 February 1980 vol 979 cc370-2W
Mr. Nicholas Winterton

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science how many administrative staff are employed at each United Kingdom university and polytechnic at present; and what is the annual wage bill for each establishment.

Dr. Boyson

The following table shows for universities in the United Kingdom the numbers of full-time administrative staff paid wholly from general university funds in the academic year 1977–78, the latest year for which information is available. Information for the annual salary bill of these staff is not centrally available. The figures cover staff on academically related salary scales and exclude staff involved in teaching and research and academic services—for example, librarians and computer staff.

University or College Staff
Aston 89
Bath 59
Birmingham 174
Bradford 53
Bristol 59
Brunei 46
Cambridge 92
City 26
Durham 45
East Anglia 77
Essex 53
Exeter 54
Hull 62
Keele 50
Kent 56
Lancaster 73
Leeds 149
Leicester 50
Liverpool 82
London Graduate School of Business Studies 12
London University 805
Loughborough 66
Manchester Business School 9
Manchester 174
University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology 57
Newcastle 72
Nottingham 82
Oxford 150
Reading 100
Salford 70
Sheffield 106
Southampton 100
Surrey 59
Sussex 84
Warwick 68
York 46
University of Wales 280
Aberdeen 112
Dundee 49
Edinburgh 110
Glasgow 90
Heriot-Watt 41
St. Andrews 57
Sterling 44
Strathclyde 91
Queen's, Belfast 85
Ulster, Coleraine 40

Strictly comparable information for the Open University is not available. In 1977 there were 360 full-time senior non-academic staff, excluding librarians.

Numbers of non-teaching staff at polytechnics are not provided in the annual returns made by local authorities, but it is estimated that the total number of non-teaching staff, including full-time and full-time equivalent of part-time staff, in the 30 polytechnics in England and Wales in March 1977 was about 17,600, of which 6,600 were academic support staff. Expenditure on all non-teaching staff in financial year 1977–78 was as follows:

Polytechnic Expenditure (£'s)
Central London, City of London, North London, The South Bank and Thames Polytechnic 7,785,465
Kingston 2,775,598
Middlesex 3,026,094
North East London 3,501,203
Birmingham 1,899,885
Brighton 2,406,144
Bristol 1,873,648
Hatfield 2,022,921
Huddersfield 1,894,110
Lancaster 2,480,648
Leeds 2,145,089
Leicester 2,531,754
Liverpool 2,149,955
Manchester 3,606,572
Newcastle 2,376,904
North Staffs 1,630,376
Oxford 1,227,713
Plymouth 1,088,116
Portsmouth 2,863,170
Preston 1,496,386
City of Sheffield 3,280,539
Sunderland 2,337,250
Teeside 1,155,599
Trent 2,783,703
The Polytechnic— Wolverhampton 2,128,534
Polytechnic of Wales 1,538,016
Ulster Polytechnic 2,218,746