§ Mr. Hendersonasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will make a statement about resources for academic pay in the universities.
§ Mr. Kenneth BakerWhen I announced planned provision for the universities in November I said the Government would be willing to provide some further additional funding for academic pay restructuring if structural improvements could be agreed at a cost that could be afforded (Official Report, c. 490). I thus
Full-time and sandwich first year students at universities in Great Britain postgraduate, first degree and other advanced courses (thousands) Academic year beginning in 1981 1982 1983 1984 Subject of study Education 10.0 8.9 9.0 9.1 Medicine, dentistry and health 8.0 8.5 8.7 8.1 Engineering and technology 15.9 15.5 15.5 15.6 Agriculture, forestry and veterinary science 2.1 2.1 2.0 2.0 Biological and physical sciences 25.0 25.2 24.9 25.6 Administrative, business and social studies 26.5 26.0 26.3 27.8 Architecture and other professional and vocational subjects 2.2 2.2 2.3 2.4 Language, literature and area studies 11.6 11.2 11.1 11.5 Arts other than languages 9.2 8.9 8.7 9.0 Total—All subjects 110.6 108.4 108.4 111.5
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Total Full Time Year Students At Public Sector Higher Education (England) Thousands Academic Year Beginning in 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 NAB Programme Engineering 8.5 9.2 9.3 9.9 10.3 Other Technology & Light Manufacture 1.1 1.3 1.6 1.3 1.4 Construction & Building 5.8 6.0 6.1 6.0 5.7 Science 3.7 4.3 4.4 4.4 4.7 Environmental & Other Sciences 6.1 6.3 6.0 6.8 6.7 Agriculture 0.7 0.7 0.7 0.8 0.8 Ancillary Health 3.0 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.4 Mathematics & Computing 3.7 3.9 4.8 5.3 5.8 recognised that extra provision would probably need to be made available. Negotiations had not reached the stage at which it was appropriate to include specific figures in the autumn statement or the public expenditure White Paper.
I am today informing the University Grants Committee that these additional resources will be £40 million in 1987–88, £56 million in 1988–89 and £71 million in 1989–90. These additions will be contained within the overall public expenditure planning totals already published in the Government's expenditure plans 1987–88 to 1989–90 (Cm. 56).
There will be no increase in these figures. Moreover, these sums will only actually be added to existing provision for university recurrent grant if and when:
a satisfactory new pay structure is assured, providing management with more flexibility to take account of the quality of lecturers' performance and recruitment and retention problems; andthere is a firm commitment to improved promotion, probation and performance appraisal arrangements.