§ Lord James Douglas-Hamiltonasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science whether he will publish a table listing all the university pharmacy departments in Great Britain showing how many graduates qualified in each of the last five years to date from each institution and how many graduates from each institution went on to employment, giving separate figures for each year and for each institution.
§ Mr. BrookeThe information requested is held by the universities' statistical record. Because it is not routinely44W published the USR needs the agreement of the universities concerned to release it. I have asked the USR to seek its agreement and will write to my hon. Friend.
§ Lord James Douglas-Hamiltonasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science how many students applied to read for the degree of pharmacy at the pharmacy department at Heriot-Watt university in each of the last five years to date; and in each case how many of them were accepted.
§ Mr. BrookeThe information requested is:
Total number of applications* Number of home and European Community students accepted 1979 590 46 1980 555 42 1981 527 43 1982 598 42 1983 620 22 * These applicants will also have applied to several other institutions.
§ Lord James Douglas-Hamiltonasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science how many of the 198 graduates of pharmacy who left the pharmacy department at Heriot-Watt university in each of the last five years to date, were employed (a) in Scotland and (b) in the south-east of Scotland.
§ Mr. BrookeI shall write to my hon. Friend shortly.