HC Deb 07 February 1995 vol 254 cc228-9W
Mrs. Fyfe

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what is the percentage increase or decrease in real terms for spending per capita on students(a) at universities and (b) in further and adult education from 1982–83 to 1992–93.

Lord James Douglas-Hamilton

[holding answer 3 February 1995]: Per capita spending—Universities Grants Committee and Universities Funding Council grants for teaching and research, and from tuition fees—for students on full-time courses who were charged fees at the home rate decreased by 27 per cent. in real terms between 1982–83 and 1992–93 in the then eight universities in Scotland. Over this period, the number of students in these universities increased by 42 per cent. The estimate of spending does not include spending by the research councils, funding provided for maintenance and loans, or fees paid by part-time and overseas students and does not take account of changes in funding arrangements, such as the transfer of research funds

Percentage generic prescriptions
Health boards 1992–93 Fundholders 1992–93 Non-fundholders 1993–94 Fundholders 1993–94 Non-fundholders
Argyll and Clyde 40.91 35.55 45.16 39.51
Ayrshire and Arran 39.37 33.96 43.08 37.17
Borders 44.83 54.93 49.44
Dumfries and Galloway 37.01 40.42 39.79
Fife 43.19 38.70 45.02 41.06
Forth Valley 37.44 39.28 41.15 43.27
Grampian 40.45 38.73 44.34 42.78
Greater Glasgow 42.83 39.50 46.67 43.13
Highland 38.95 37.93 41.81 40.87
Lanarkshire 38.67 33.25 43.51 37.73
Lothian 44.07 43.24 47.90 47.51
Orkney 39.29 42.38
Shetland 35.75 36.68
Tayside 47.97 41.25 51.92 45.04
Western Isles 46.35 49.27
Scotland 41.38 38.97 45.49 42.37