Polytechnic of Wales

HC Deb 18 May 1989 vol 153 cc257-8W

Mr. Murphy

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what are his intentions regarding the future funding and status of the Polytechnic of Wales.

Mr. Wyn Roberts

The Polytechnic of Wales will continue to be funded from the higher education quantum on the advice of the Wales Advisory Body for Local Authority Higher Education. If it acquires corporate status as a limited company it will become an assisted, rather than a maintained, institution, but its funding arrangements would not change. The question of the polytechnic acquiring corporate status in this way is a matter for Mid Glamorgan county council as the maintaining local education authority.