§ Mr. Shersbyasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will list in the Official Report in tabular form details of all scientific research projects being sponsored by his Department on Parkinson's disease,
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Percentages 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 GREAT BRITAIN Percentage of entrants to higher education aged under 21 who were women 46 46 44 43 42 42 43 43 43 44 Percentage of entrants to non-teacher training higher education aged under 21 who were women 36 37 37 38 39 39 41 42 42 43 ENGLAND Girls leaving school in-tending to take up full-time degree courses— percentage from*: Grammar schools 43 36 31 26 21 19 13 13 11 11 Other maintained schools 29 38 43 49 54 58 64 64 66 65 Independent schools 28 26 26 25 25 23 22 23 23 25 *Percentages may not sum due to rounding. together with the name of the person undertaking the work, the location of the research establishment and the total cost of each project.
§ Mr. BrookeThe Department is responsible for the funding, by means of grant-in-aid, of the Medical Research Council which is the main public sector agency for supporting biomedical research. I understand that the MRC is funding a number of research projects on Parkinson's disease and I will write to my hon. Friend with details.