§ Dame Jill KnightTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what Government funding is made available annually towards the cost of the training course for optometry.
§ Mr. BoswellI have been asked to reply.
Funding for subjects and professions allied to medicine, including optometry, is the responsibility of the Universities Funding Council and the Polytechnics and 548W Colleges Funding Council. The UFC's teaching unit of resource for funded places in subjects allied to medicine is £4,614 in 1992–93. The PCFC's mean funding per full-time funded place in its health and social services programme is £3,079 in 1992–93. These categories cover different subjects and are not directly comparable. Funded places for optometry are not separately identified. It is for institutions to decide actual spending on each subject.