HC Deb 16 March 1992 vol 205 c837W
Mr. Peter Bottomley

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what public resources are made available to Thames polytechnic.

Mr. Alan Howarth

The Polytechnics and Colleges Funding Council—PCFC—has made the following public funds available to Thames polytechnic for the financial year 1991–92:

£
Main allocation 19,307,579
Equipment 1,933,332
Hunter capital 541,700
Minor works 424,000
Research 250,000
Total 22,456,611

In addition the polytechnic's publicly funded tuition fee from funded places is expected to be £11,944,000. Total public funds available to the polytechnic are therefore £34,400,611. Institutions are free to recruit additional students who do not attract PCFC grant but who bring with them the publicly funded tuition fee, averaging £2,200 in the PCFC sector in 1991–92.