§ Mr. Nicholas Wintertonasked 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. BoysonThe following table shows for universities in the United 371W 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.
372WNumbers 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