§ Mr. Norman Hoggasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he has any plans to privatise any of Scotland's universities.
§ Mr. WaldenIt was made clear in "The Development of Higher Education into the 1990s" (Cmnd. 9524) that whilst an increase in universities' income from private sources would be desirable the Government had concluded, with regret, that no substantial part of established public funding responsibilities for higher education could be shed. That remains our view.