§ Mr. Ron Daviesasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what is the total amount of money afforded to universities and polytechnics, respectively, under the engineering and technology programme; which universities and which polytechnics will benefit or have benefited; and by what amount in each case.
§ Mr. BrookeOf the £43 million in total made available under phases 1 and 2 of this programme, £35.4 million has been allocated for 30 universities which are funded through the University Grants Committee; £5.7 million in total for eight polytechnics; and £0.5 million for Cranfield institute of technology. (These totals include sums in respect of student awards). The Open university has been allocated £1.4 million.
The final detail of funding to all individual institutions over the three years of the programme is yet to be settled. Allocations under phase 2 of the programme are also provisional pending the receipt of information from institutions concerning additional industrial support made available to them.
Details of the institutions to be included in the Programme were published in the Department's press notices No. 83/85 and 249/85. I am sending copies to the hon. Member and placing further copies in the Library.
§ Mr. Ron Daviesasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what is the intended unit of resource per student in the university and polytechnic sector, respectively, and as an average for both under the engineering and technology programme.
Year 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 Number of proposals formally submitted under the energy efficiency demonstration scheme (formerly the energy conservation demonstration projects scheme) United Kingdom 11 42 51 106 81 53 56 Scotland 1 5 5 6 5 2 4 Domestic buildings sector 0 1 1 7 6 3 4 Non-domestic buildings sector 1 2 9 31 27 11 20 Number of projects offered grant assistance United Kingdom 10 25 41 87 67 42 47 Scotland 1 3 4 5 5 2 2 Domestic buildings sector 0 1 1 5 5 0 2 Non-domestic building sector 1 1 9 22 23 11 19