§ Mr. McNallyasked the Secretary of State for Wales what is the estimated cost of tuition of a student in maintained higher education in Wales in each of the last five years for which figures are available.
§ Mr. Michael RobertsThe estimated cost of tuition of a student on a higher education course at a maintained institution in Wales in each financial year between 1976–77 and 1980–81 is as follows:
£ outturn prices Year 1976–77 1,806 1977–78 1,881 1978–79 1,931 1979–80 2,338 1980–81 2,748
§ Mr. McNallyasked the Secretary of State for Wales if he will publish the total number of full-time equivalent students on courses of higher education in the maintained sector in 1981–82 in Wales and the total cost to central and local goverment of maintenance awards paid to them.
§ Mr. Michael RobertsThe number of full-time equivalent students on courses of higher education at maintained colleges in Wales in 1981–82 was 10,188. Figures of the maintenance awards paid to these students are not available centrally. The cost to central and local government of maintenance of students from Wales who attended a public sector maintained college or a voluntary college, either in Wales or elsewhere, and who received either a mandatory or full value discretionary award in the financial year 1980–81, the latest year for which information is available, is estimated to have been £12.4 million.
§ Mr. McNallyasked the Secretary of State for Wales if he will publish the total number of full-time equivalent students in any form of education in 1981–82 in Wales and the total cost to central and local government of maintenance awards paid to them.
§ Mr. Michael RobertsThe number of full-time equivalent students in all forms of education except adult education in Wales in 1981–82 was 584,741. The total cost to central and local government of all types of maintenance in 1980–81, the latest year for which figures are available, is estimated to have been £31 million.