HC Deb 03 December 1987 vol 123 cc649-50W
Mr. Wall

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science how much the United Kingdom spends per capita on higher and further education; and what information he has as to the per capita expenditure in(a) the United States of America, (b) Sweden, (c) West Germany and (d) Japan.

Mr. Jackson

[holding answer 1 December 1987]: For international purposes, data for non-advanced further education are included with secondary education and cannot be separately identified. Figures for Sweden are not readily available.

Current public expenditure on higher education per capita is given in the table:

£ at 1983 prices1
Country Year of data All HE expenditure Excluding student support, welfare and general research funding2
United Kingdom3 1983 57 34
United States of America4 1982 168 149
Germany, Federal Republic of 1983 37 14
Japan5 1982 23 13
1 At purchasing power parity: expenditure adjusted to calendar year, where necessary, using consumer prices indices.
2 General research funding data for 1982 adjusted to 1983 from ABRC report below.
3 Excludes expenditure on nursing and paramedical courses at DHSS establishments.
4 Includes capital expenditure.
5 Excludes public subsidies to private education.

Sources: Statistical Bulletin 4/87.

UNESCO Statistical Yearbook, 1986.

U.N. Demographic Yearbook.

ABRC Science Policy Studies No. 2 — International Comparisons of Government Funding of Academic and Academically Related Research.