HC Deb 15 February 1988 vol 127 cc431-2W
Mr. Salmond

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science (1) if he will publish tables showing(a) the volume of University Grants Committee grants to each university in Britain for each year since 1979–80, including planned expenditure to 1990–91, at constant 1987 prices and (b) the overall value of these grants at 1987 prices for each year since 1979–80, including planned expenditure to 1990–91, to (i) Scottish institutions, (ii) Welsh institutions, (iii) English institutions and (iv) British institutions as a whole; and if he will express as a percentage the change in real terms of these grants to (i), (ii), (iii) and (iv) between 1979–80 and 1990–91, and 1987–88 and 1990–91;

(2) if he will publish a table showing for each year since 1979–80 to 1990–91 the value of Government grants to each university in Britain.

Mr. Jackson

For 1979–80, I refer the hon. Member to table 41 of "Statistics of Education 1979 Universities Vol. 6", and for 1980–81 to 1985–86 to table 3 of the respective annual editions of "University Statistics Volume 3 Finance". Copies of these documents are available in the Library. Comparable information is not available for later years. The figures may be converted to constant prices on an academic year basis by taking account of the following gross domestic product deflators:

Year
1979–80 60.780
1980–81 69.625
1981–82 75.673
1982–83 80.309
1983–84 83.988
1984–85 88.275
1985–86 92.475
1986–87 95.825
1987–88 100.000