§ Mr. Roweasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science (1) what information he has on the numbers
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Speech science, speech pathology and speech therapy courses and numbers of graduates All first degree graduates Good honours graduates Institution Course 1983 1984 1985 1983 1984 1985 (a) Great Britain universities University College London Speech sciences 43 46 42 18 16 14 Manchester Speech pathology and therapy 22 18 19 16 10 13 Newcastle Speech, Speech and psychology 16 11 19 4 7 8 Reading Linguistics and Language pathology 10 13 11 9 4 8 Sheffield Speech science 19 14 14 7 5 5
§ Mr. WaldenNone. As I said in my reply of 27 January to my hon. Friend the Member for Southend, East (Mr. Taylor), at column366, the level of student grant represents a balance between covering students' needs and the total expenditure which taxpayers and ratepayers can reasonably be asked to meet given other claims on scarce resources. The actual living costs of all students in and outside London are obviously kept clearly in mind.