HC Deb 04 June 1992 vol 208 cc617-8W
Mr. Peter Griffiths

To ask the Secretary of State for Education what was the percentage change in real terms of the salaries of academic staff in polytechnics between 1979 and 1991.

Mr. Forman

The percentage change in real terms of the salaries of academic staff in polytechnics between 1979 and 1990 was 24.2 per cent. Information for 1991 is not yet available.

Mr. Peter Griffiths

To ask the Secretary of State for Education how many full-time staff there were in institutions funded by the Polytechnics and Colleges Funding Council, or its earlier equivalent, in 1979 and at the last count.

Mr. Forman

The Polytechnics and Colleges Funding Council annual record of staff and students shows that 58,283 full-time equivalent staff were in institutions funded by the council in academic year 1990–91, the latest year for which data are available.

The PCFC was established in 1989. Comparable data for 1979 are not available for the institutions currently funded by the PCFC.