§ Mr. DafisTo ask the Secretary of State for Education if he will make it his policy to instruct the higher education inspectors to produce an annual assessment on the use made of funds granted to the Higher Education Funding Council via the dual support scheme for university research.
§ Mr. FormanThe Government have asked the higher education funding councils to secure increased accountability for the use of council funds for research. It is for the councils themselves to determine how to take this forward. The Higher Education Funding Council for England has recently launched an initiative to achieve this.