§ Mr. Alex CarlileTo ask the Secretary of State for Wales what is the annual amount of public funding allocated to farm colleges in(a) Wales and (b) Great Britain as a whole; and if he will make a statement.
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§ Mr. RedwoodThe Welsh funding councils allocated £4.7 million to agriculture colleges in Wales for the academic year 1993–94. The agriculture colleges in England and Scotland are the responsibility of my right hon. Friends the Secretaries of State for Education and for Scotland. However, I understand that the allocations for agriculture colleges in England and Scotland were £67.3 million and £11.2 million respectively. The figure for England relates to the academic year 1993–94 and the figure for Scotland to the financial year 1993–94.
Courses in agriculture are provided by many institutions which do not have "agriculture college" in their names. Expenditure on courses in these institutions has not been included in the figures given here.