§ Mrs. Renée Shortasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will list the number of university lectureship redundancies in each of the last four academic years.
§ Mr. BrookeThe number of academic staff taking early retirement under the UGC's redundancy compensation scheme in the academic years 1981–82, 1982–83 and 1983–84 were 1,446, 864 and 890 respectively. Information for 1984–85 is not yet available.