§ Mr. Ennalsasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what representations he has received about the consequences to academic teaching and medical research of the present financial situations of (a) the Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, (b) the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, (c) the Institute of Urology, (d) the Institute of Psychiatry, (e) the Institute of Orthopaedics, (f) the Institute of Ophthalmology, (g) the Institute of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, (h) the Institute of Neurology, (i) the Institute of Laryngology and Otology, (j) the Institute of Child Health, (k) the Institute of Dermatology, (l) the Institute of Dental Surgery, (m) the Cardiothoracic Institute and (n) the Institute of Cancer Research; and if he will take steps to improve the financial situations of these organisations.
§ Dr. BoysonMy right hon. and learned Friend has received correspondence on this subject from the chairman of the British Postgraduate Medical Federation and from representatives of the Institue of Laryngology and Otology,160W the Institute of Dermatology, the Institute of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, the Institute of Orthopaedics and the Institute of Urology. In addition, he met the vice-chancellor of London university on 6 April to discuss the university's financial situation with particular reference to the postgraduate medical schools and institutes. The 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, £3 million has been made available within the announced grant to the UGC for 1981–82 to assist with problems which have arisen within the universities as result of the removal of the subsidy for overseas students.