HC Deb 18 February 1986 vol 92 cc105-7W
Dr. McDonald

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science (1) if he will publish an estimate of the additional costs incurred by universities involved in the Alvey programme;

(2) if he intends to meet additional costs to universities involved in the Alvey programme; and if he will make a statement.

Mr. Walden

The Science and Engineering Research Council's grants provided under the Alvey programme cover expenditure in the following areas:

  1. i. employment of additional temporary research, technical and other assistants;
  2. ii. major capital faciliies and special scientific apparatus not customary for the institution itself to provide;
  3. iii. essential materials and services on a scale which the institution is unable to supply;
  4. iv visits by investigators to recognised centres abroad to study new techniques and research developments.

These areas are common to all the council's research grants. No estimate is available centrally for other costs which, under the dual support system, are borne by the university concerned from its UGC block grant. No further specific provision will be made.

Dr. McDonald

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will publish in the Official Report a list of the universities and other educational institutions currently involved in the Alvey programme.

Mr. Walden

The following universities and other educational institutions are currently involved in the Alvey programme:

Universities

  • Aberdeen
  • Aston
  • Bath
  • Birmingham
  • Bradford
  • Bristol
  • Brunel
  • Cambridge
  • Dundee
  • Durham
  • East Anglia
  • Edinburgh
  • Essex
  • Exeter
  • Glasgow
  • Heriot-Watt
  • Hull
  • Keale
  • Kent
  • Lancaster
  • Leeds
  • Leicester
  • Liverpool

London University:

  • Institute of Neurology
  • Imperial College
  • King's College
  • Middlesex Hospital Medical School
  • Queen Elizabeth College
  • Queen Mary College
  • School of Oriental and African Studies
  • University College
  • Loughborough
  • Manchester
  • Newcastle
  • Nottingham
  • Open
  • Oxford
  • Queens
  • Belfast
  • Reading
  • St. Andrews
  • Salford
  • Sheffield
  • Southampton
  • Stirling
  • Strathclyde
  • Surrey
  • Sussex
  • Ulster
  • UWIST
  • University of Wales
  • University College Aberystwyth
  • University College Cardiff
  • University College Swansea
  • UWIST
  • Warwick
  • York

Polytechnics

  • Central London
  • City
  • Hatfield
  • Lanchester
  • Leicester
  • Middlesex
  • Newcastle
  • Plymouth
  • Sheffield
  • South Bank
  • Teeside
  • Thames
  • Trent

Other Institutions

Cranfield Institute of Technology