§ Mrs. Renée Shortasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what information he has as to how many university lecturers have been either pensioned off or have accepted voluntary redundancy payments during the last six academic years and as to what costs have been incurred by universities as a result.
§ Mr. WaldenThe numbers and cost of academic and academic related staff taking retirement under the UGC's redundancy compensation scheme since it was introduced in 1981–82 have been.
Year Number retiring Cost £ million 1981–82 1,600 35 1982–83 1,100 31 1983–84 1,000 30 1984–85 700 23