University of Wales

HC Deb 11 March 1996 vol 273 cc494-5W

Mr. Win Griffiths

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will list the numbers of students at each college of the university of Wales in each of the last five years, indicating the funding provided by the Government in(a) cash and (b) real terms for each college in each of these years. [19929]

Mr. Richards

The number of students at each college of the university of Wales from 1990–91 to 1994–95¹ was:

	1990–91	1991–92	1992–93	1993–94	1994–952
Swansea	6,056	7,124	7,823	8,807	9,688
College of Medicine	1,201	1,355	1,738	1,725	2,295
Total	26,170	29,487	33,112	36,390	41,522
1Includes full-time and part-time students. At December.
2Provisional.

In cash terms, the colleges received the following grant support from the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales in the academic years 1993–94 and 1994–95:

£ million
	1993–94	1994–95
Aberystwyth	15.7	21.9
Bangor	16.1	21.4
Cardiff	37.2	49.7
St. Davids	3.3	5.0
Medicine	10.5	12.7
Swansea	23.7	32.2

In addition, the colleges received grant from the funding council in respect of backlog maintenance and some other capital works in the financial years 1993–94 and 1994–95. This was:

£ million
	1993–94	1994–95
Aberystwyth	0.5	0.6
Bangor	0.5	0.7
Cardiff	0.8	0.3
St. Davids	0.1	0.1
Medicine	—	—
Swansea	0.6	0.8

The movement in GDP between 1993–94 and 1994–95 was nearly 2 per cent.

Prior to 1993–94, funding for the higher education institutions in Wales was from a variety of sources. Comparable funding information for these years could be made available only at disproportionate cost.