§ 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 Kingdom the numbers of full-time administrative staff paid wholly from general university funds in the academic year 1978–79, the latest year for which information is available. Information for the annual26W 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 93 Bath 56 Birmingham 170 Bradford 55 Bristol 68 Brunel 48 Cambridge 110 City 28 Durham 46 East Anglia 84 Essex 53 Exeter 54 Hull 66 Keele 50 Kent 58 Lancaster 77 Leeds 150 Leicester 54 Liverpool 90 London Graduate School of Business Studies 16 London University 818 Loughborough 70 Manchester Business School 9 Manchester 201 University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology 68 Newcastle 74 Nottingham 89 Oxford 150 Reading 101 Salford 76 Sheffield 101 Southampton 104 Surrey 59 Sussex 86 Warwick 74 York 55 University of Wales 278 Aberdeen 118 Dundee 53 Edinburgh 115 Glasgow 89 Heriot-Watt 45 St Andrews 60 Stirling 47 Strathclyde 85 Queen's, Belfast 83 Ulster, Coleraine 41 Strictly comparable information for the Open University is not available. In 1978 there were 404 full-time senior non-academic staff excluding librarians. On the numbers of non-teaching staff at polytechnics, I cannot add to my answer of 22 February. Expenditure on all non-teaching staff in financial year 1978–79 was as follows:
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Polytechnic Expenditure (£000) Central London 12,004 City of London North London The South Bank Thames Polytechnic Kingston 2,615 Middlesex 3,699 North East London 3,678 Birmingham 1,569 Brighton 2,867
Polytechnic Expenditure (£000) Bristol 2,115 Hatfield 2,111 Huddersfield 2,097 Lancaster 2,332 Leeds 1,855 Leicester 2,425 Liverpool 2,351 Manchester 3,530 Newcastle 2,233 North Staffs 1,860 Oxford 1,240 Plymouth 1,234 Portsmouth 2,736 Preston 1,398 City of Sheffield 2,956 Sunderland 1,950 Teeside 1,099 Trent 2,410 Polytechnic—Wolverhampton 1,800 Polytechnic of Wales 1,282 Ulster Polytechnic 2,483