§ Mr. KynochTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will announce the allocations of further education capital and recurrent grant for 1993–94; and if he will make a statement.
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§ Lord James Douglas-HamiltonThe allocation of capital and recurrent grant to the 43 further education colleges and Orkney and Shetland Islands councils is as follows:
Grant allocations 1993–94 College Capital grant Recurrent grant Aberdeen College of Further Education 513,193 11,456,100 Angus College of Further Education 38,604 2,504,800 Anniesland College 147,363 3,250,300 Ayr College 43,776 3,998,500 Banff and Buchan College 8,683 2,649,300 Barony College 90,438 1,016,700 Bell College 364,230 4,444,400 Borders College 48,747 3,496,400 Cambuslang College 46,287 3,734,000 Cardonald College 271,187 5,209,200 Central College of Commerce 359,873 3,218,100 Clackmannan College 46,552 2,178,500 Clydebank College 39,886 5,934,400 Coatbridge College 51,410 3,399,300 Cumbernauld College 8,029 2,177,900 Dumfries and Galloway College of Technology 66,967 4,584,800 Dundee College 166,504 10,073,500 Elmwood College 165,147 2,924,700 Falkirk College of Technology 30,226 7,468,700 Fife College of Technology 50,732 6,017,400 Glasgow College of Food Technology 8,680 2,883,400 Glasgow College of Nautical Studies 247,419 3,517,200 Glasgow College of Building and Printing 635,986 4,450,200 Glenrothes College 10,457 4,313,000 Inverness College 343,528 6,038,700 James Watt College 77,200 4,886,500 Jewel and Esk Valley College 417,623 7,107,500 John Wheatley College 73,768 2,625,500 Kilmarnock College 222,743 3,921,000 Langside College 356,916 4,737,900 Lauder College 38,574 4,560,800 Lews Castle College 172,067 1,879,400 Moray College of Further Education 70,295 4,214,700 Motherwell College 317,232 5,955,000 North Glasgow College 279,311 5,526,100 Oatridge College 207,576 1,793,400 Perth College of Further Education 95,565 5,039,600 Reid Kerr College 503,999 6,496,800 Stevenson College 206,626 9,423,200 Stow College 78,982 3,039,600 Telford College 680,966 11,310,000 Thurso College 11,058,877 2,319,500 West Lothian College 41,949 4,739,100 Orkney Islands Council 20 391,000 Shetland Islands Council 20 1,093,900 Computerised Management 8,704,173 3202,000,000 Information System (to be allocated) 2,710,000 1,800,000 TOTALS 11,414,173 203,800,000 1 Includes £0–9 million for ongoing project. 2 Capital expenditure dealt with through Section 94 allocation to local authority. 3 An additional £0–8 million will be available to FE Colleges through the Training Credit pilot schemes. The recurrent grant allocations derive from an analysis of historic budgets. Direct comparison with the position in 1992–93 is not possible because of the changed status of the colleges, their taxation liabilities, variations in income resulting, for example, from changes in higher education tuition fees and the different methods used by each education authority to allocate budgets.
180WIn 1994–95 recurrent expenditure is planned to rise to £215 million and capital expenditure to £12–76 million. It is proposed to introduce a new student based funding methodology from 1994–95.
§ Mr. SalmondTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what are the current target figures for students entering higher education.
§ Lord James Douglas-Hamilton[holding answer 18 February 1993]: The Government do not set target figures for students entering higher education. It is for individual institutions to decide the number of students to admit to higher education courses in the light of the demand for those courses and the level of available resources. The expenditure plans set out in Cmd 2214 allow for the proportion of young Scots entering full-time higher education in the United Kingdom to remain roughly constant at its current level of about 34 per cent. for the next three years. Thereafter, the Government expect the proportion to rise to 40 per cent. before the end of the decade.