§ Mrs. Renée Shortasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science whether he will provide the universities with additional funding in order that they may maintain the 1968 agreement and grant clinical academic salary increases in line with the April 1982 increases granted to National Health Service hospital doctors.
§ Mr. WaldegraveSubject to parliamentary approval of the necessary Supplementary Estimates, cash limits for universities and the Medical Research Council will he increased as follows to make additional provision for pay for clinical academic staff and medical research workers, following the offer made to NHS hospital doctors and dentists in the light of the recommendations of the Doctors and Dentists Review Body announced by my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister on 6 May.
1982–83 Financial Year (£000) Class/Vote Present cash limit Increase Revised cash limit X,2 1,383,946 700 1,384,646 X,7 107,432 70 107,502 These increases represent about two-thirds of the additional cost of implementing the offer. The total additional provision of £770,000 will be met from the Contingency Reserve and therefore will not add to the planned total of public expenditure.
Appropriate adjustments will be made to the universities' academic year grants for 1981–82 and 1982–83.