§ Mr. WrayTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will list all the administrative forms which universities have to fill in to comply with procedures for the control of public money they receive.
Mr. JacksonThe control of public money is not meaningfully separable from the range of dealings between the University Grants Committee and individual institutions. However, the committee's main source of information on financial matters is the annual return form 3 (finance).
§ Mr. WrayTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what is, for each year, since 1974 the amount of public funds given to universities in(a) Austria, (b) Denmark, (c) France, (d) Germany, (e) Holland, (f) Italy, (g) Spain, (h) Sweden, (i) Canada, (j) the United States of America and (h) the United Kingdom.
Mr. JacksonThe readily available information covering higher education is shown in the table and is on a per capita population basis to enable comparisons to be made.
Public recurrent expenditure1 on higher education in 1983 and 1984 (calendar years) Current expenditure per capita (£) Country 1983 1984 France 41 42 Germany 37 258 Italy 25 26 Netherlands 98 95 United Kingdom3 57 58 United States of America4 168 165 1 At purchasing power parity; data prior to 1983 and 1984 have been adjusted via consumer price indices. 2 Revised coverage of source statistics. 3 Excluding expenditure on nursing and paramedical courses at Department of Health establishments. Also excludes in-service teacher training secondment costs. 4 Provisional.