§ Mr. Hordernasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will publish the cost of wages and salaries in universities in each of the last five years, distinguishing between increases paid by annual increments and those paid through negotiated settlements, and the proportion that wage and salary costs bear of total expenditure of universities in each year.
§ Mr. WaldegraveThe total costs of salaries and wages and the proportion which salaries and wages constituted of the net recurrent expenditure of universities in Great Britain were as follows:
Academic year Total Salaries and wages Per cent. of net recurring expenditure £000 1976–77 463,331 58.9 1977–78 511,910 58.5 1978–79 590,024 57.5 1979–80 716,339 57.0 1980–81 not available not available The further analysis requested is not available but pay settlements for non-clinical university teachers for the years in question were as follows:
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Per cent. 1 October 1976 5 subject to a minimum of £2.50 p.w. and a maximum of £4 p.w. 1 October 1977 9.8 average increase 1 October 1978 (a) 9 average increase, plus (b) 6.1 being the first stage of the agreed rectification of the anomaly between university teachers' salaries and the salaries of other further education teachers, compound with (a) 1 October 1979 (a) 10 average increase, plus (b) 5.66 being the second stage of the anomaly rectification, compounded with (a) 1 April 1980 9 being the first stage of a "catching up" settlement (to parallel Standing Commission on Pay Comparability awards) 1 October 1980 (a) 8 On October 1979 scales, being the second state of the 'catching up' settlement plus (b) 7 average increase, compounded with (a) 1 March 1981 3.2 average increase, new scales to run until 31 March 1982