§ Mr. D. E. Thomasasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what were the percentage changes in real terms in funding of the colleges of the University of Wales by the University Grants Committee over the period 1981–82 to 1986–87, including those amounts representing compensation for redundancy and early retirement, provision for capital in recurrent expenditure and local authority rates.
§ Mr. WaldenThe percentage changes in real terms in funding of the colleges of the university of Wales by the University Grants Committee over the period 1981–82 to 1985–86, including those amounts representing compensation for redundancy and early retirement, provision for capital in recurrent expenditure and local authority rates is shown in the following table. Information for the 1986–87 academic year cannot be provided as total grant for that year cannot be finalised until the first instalment of the rates bill for the 1987–88 financial year is known.
pupil in respect of providing this education in the primary and secondary sectors and the corresponding figures for the academic year 1978–79.
§ Mr. DunnThe pupil-teacher ratio and the average amount spent per pupil in maintained primary and secondary schools in England, the South West and Cornwall and the corresponding figures for 1978–79 are as follows:
7WInformation for Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland is the responsibility of my right hon. Friends the Secretaries of State for Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.