§ Mr. Skinnerasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if, following representations from members of the British Postgraduate Medical Federation, he will now restore funds to medical research institutes facing closure due to cuts in public expenditure; and if he will make a statement.
§ Dr. BoysonThe distribution of grant to individual universities is a matter for the University Grants Committee, while it is for each university to determine how to allocate the resources available to it between its various schools and institutes. However, I have made available £3 million within the announced grant to the UGC for 1981–82 to assist with problems of this kind in the universities.