Mr. Ronald W. Brownasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science, in view of the fact that full facilities exist on the Charterhouse site for the accommodation of a joint London hospital and St. Bartholomew's hospital preclinical medical school offering 200 student places as well as 50 dental student places, at a cost of £1.8 million, if he will inform the University Grants Committee that in times of financial stringency he is unwilling to accept its advice to authorise the spending of over £15 million on providing a similar number of student places on another site.
§ Dr. BoysonThe University Grants Committee has not advised the authorisation of any expenditure on the provision of a joint pre-clinical medical school for the London and St. Bartholomew's hospitals.